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Huanglong Travertine Pools

Huanglong Travertine Pools

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

Tristan da Cunha

Tristan da Cunha

The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

Sur Lípez, Bolivia

Laguna Colorada

This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.

Welwitschia

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

(Flickr/copepodo)

Antsalova, Madagascar

Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park and Nature Reserve

Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife.

Old Harry Rocks

Dorset, England

Old Harry Rocks

65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.

The green sand on Papakōlea.

Naalehu, Hawaii

Papakōlea Beach

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawai'i.

Yangshuo and Moon Hill

A natural arch offers panoramic views of Yangshuo's karst hills.

(Flickr/goldlionpics)

Olympos Coastal National Park (Çıralı)

Roman ruins, natural methane fires and a lovely beach.

Acacus Mountains

Landscape of bizarrely shaped desert mountains and innumerable rock carvings.

Concord, New Hampshire

Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone

Carved, egg-shaped stone with no explanation.

(Flickr/DrJohnBullas)

Fort Smith, Northwest Territories

Diavik Diamond Mine

Ice roads, deep holes and 3,500 pounds of diamonds.

Papantla, Mexico

Monumento al Volador (Monument to the Flyer)

A massive yet whimsical statue pays homage to the art and joy of "flight."

El Fonoll, Spain

El Fonoll

An independent naturist colony amidst 1000-year-old ruins.

A storm rolls in behind Castellfollit de la Roca

Castellfollit de la Roca, Spain

Castellfollit de la Roca

Village situated on a narrow volcanic escarpment.

Visitors cling to chains above a mile-high precipice

Huashan Mountain

A harrowing trail up a mile-high mountain.

Zigzag aqueduct

Cumbe Mayo and Los Frailones

Pre-Incan aqueduct amidst a stone forest in Peru.

The badlands.

Caledon, Ontario

Cheltenham Badlands

These strikingly barren, rolling red hills were caused by bad farming practices.