Wonders Of Salt

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

An underground city of salt.

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

A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

Gigantic Romanian salt mines used to heal respiratory conditions.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.

One of the world's largest salt caves is filled with fragile salt sculptures, salt rivers, and huge salt megadomes.

The world's second largest salt mine, said to have been discovered by Alexander the Great's horse.