Mountains

This peak in Chapada Diamantina National Park offers the most stunning sunsets.

These 4,444 wooden steps straight up a mountain were built to serve a hydroelectric power station but these days, they're mostly used by hikers.

This rural museum highlights Wyoming's era of trapping and fur trades, and hosts the annual Green River Rendezvous in July.

This Swiss cemetery is reserved for people who died in climbing accidents.

At 11,500 feet in elevation, there is no toilet in the state closer to the sky than this one.

The largest battery in New England sits atop a Massachusetts mountain.

This quaint mountain pass with centuries-old cobblestones is known as Japan's steepest slope.

This 16th-century hilltop chapel is one of the oldest churches in Old Goa.

The highest point in the Kingdom of the Netherlands is on a remote Caribbean island atop a dormant volcano.

Since its original beginnings as a weather observatory mountaintop, this facility played an instrumental role in gathering atmospheric data for almost 100 years.

The museum isn't crazy, it's a museum of Sweet Grass County history complete with a replica Norwegian stabbur.

A former millstone quarry in the Italian Alps is strewn with rocks bearing distinct round shapes.

This harrowing climb along West Virginia's jagged spires is one of the only Via Ferrata on America's east coast.

At the western edge of Palm Springs, a rugged desert canyon trail leads to a waterfall at the base of the San Jacinto Mountains.

During the American Revolutionary War, iron excavated from this mine was used to make swords, cannons, and more.