Wonders Of Salt

A former salt mine is now a cool picnic spot for families and asthmatics.

Learn about the history of mining and making salt at this Cheshire museum.

This unique landscape is the only place in the world to dig for hourglass-selenite crystals.

This rural island is home to the ghost town of what used to be the world’s biggest salt mine.

The largest salt lake in the Sahara is mysteriously alluring.

These abandoned salt flats are now a haven for wildlife.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

Colorful lights and mirror-like brine pools create trippy illusions within the historic mine.

The shallow, salty inlet was a safe haven for 19th-century pirates.

Acres of salt crystal pyramids dry in the sun along Thailand's "salt road."

The saltiest lake in all of Crimea is also the pinkest of the pink and teeming with life.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.