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Bandiagara, Mali

Bandiagara Escarpment Cliff Dwellings

These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.

The active volcano on Miyakejima. (Creative Commons)

Miyakejima, Japan

Gas Mask Tourism on the Izu Islands

Sulphuric gases inhabit a beautiful Japanese island.

Collage of the tunnel at Tunnel Beach, Dunedin, New Zealand, showing the beginning, a look backwards up the tunnel, and a view of the beach at the end of the tunnel. (Wikimedia Commons)

Dunedin, New Zealand

Tunnel Beach

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

Swimming pigs.

Big Major Cay, Bahamas

Pig Beach

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

Petroglyph of a llama. (Wikimedia Commons)

Toro Muerto

Thousands of volcanic rocks carved 1,000 years ago.

Lake Ellen Kimberlite. (Creative Commons)

Crystal Falls, Michigan

Lake Ellen Kimberlite

Reason for Michigan's potential diamond mine.

A house in the Tongo Hills. (Creative Commons)

Bolgatanga, Ghana

Tengzug Shrine

Topless shrine of northern Ghana.

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Raccoon Mountain Caverns

More than five miles of underground passageways.

Kings Bowl and Great Rift from air. King's Bowl is a phreatic explosion pit 280 feet (90 m) long, 100 feet (30 m) wide, and 100 feet (30 m) deep, caused by lava meeting groundwater and producing a steam explosion 2,200 years ago. (Wikimedia Commons)

Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Kitch-iti-kipi

Manistique, Michigan

Kitch-iti-kipi

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

Tourists can hang out with the crocodiles.

Sacred Crocodile Ponds of Paga

The souls of the dead have made these Ghanese crocodiles shockingly docile.

Olympic Hot Springs

Port Angeles, Washington

Olympic Hot Springs

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

Sasquatch Caves. (Creative Commons)

Hope, British Columbia

Sasquatch Caves

A hiking area billed as a possible home to Bigfoot.

Moses with tablets of the Ten Commandments, painting by Rembrandt, 1659. (Wikimedia Commons)

Mount Horeb

Site where Moses may have received the Ten Commandments.

Tuckaleechee Caverns. (Creative Commons)

Townsend, Tennessee

Tuckaleechee Caverns

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

Bicheno Blowhole

Bicheno, Australia

Bicheno Blowhole

Granite rocks that concentrate waves into powerful jets.

Wineglass Bay. (prasitmankad/Flickr)

Freycinet, Australia

Wineglass Bay

One of the best beaches in the entire world.

Little Blue Lake.

South Mount Cameron, Australia

Little Blue Lake

A beautiful, but toxic, lake formed by mining.