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Granite Falls, Washington

Big Four Ice Caves

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.
La Paz, Bolivia

Valle de las Animas

Bolivia's needle-like rock formations.
Aba, China

Huanglong Travertine Pools

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.
Pikeville, Tennessee

Fall Creek Falls State Park

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.
Bayingol, China

Alluvial Fan of the Taklimakan Desert

Made by river sediment, it is the largest alluvial fan in the world.
Odda, Norway

Trolltunga

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."
Plitvička Jezera, Croatia

Plitvice Lakes

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.
Mammoth Lakes, California

Devils Postpile National Monument

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.
Yemen

Socotra Island

The most alien-looking place on Earth.
Remouchamps, Belgium

Caves of Remouchamps

Hiding the longest subterranean river known in the world.
Kaneohe, Hawaii

Ha'iku Stairs

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.
Albuquerque, New Mexico

ATLAS-I

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.
Oracle, Arizona

Biosphere 2

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.
Coulee City, Washington

Dry Falls

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.
Monticello, Utah

Hole n" the Rock

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
Glenwood Springs, Colorado

Hanging Lake

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.
Denver, Colorado

Packrat Antiques

Curios, scientific antiques, oddities for sale.