A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.

The world's second-largest excavated hole.

The tallest stationary dunes on Earth also happen to sing.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

The hottest place on the planet.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

One of the most remote and isolated villages on the Arabian Peninsula.

A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."

French scientists make up the majority of the few humans to occupy this remote island in the extreme southern Indian Ocean.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.