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A canvas of crops grow from vibrant red soil in this terraced farmland.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

A precariously perched golden rock defies gravity and brings pilgrims from across Myanmar.

Thousands of bats stream out of caves every night on the edge on Thailand's second largest park.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.

New Zealand's west coast is one of the best places in the world to view these large seabirds.

This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

This island at Coburg Lake Reserve is home to a sizable, very visible colony of Australian white ibis.

An animatronic tribute to a legendary half-man, half-fish creature.