No one seems to know who suffered the disappointment at this particular place.

This salt lake in South Australia features seasonal color changes and its very own loch monster.

The world's most remote airport.

This striking, two-toned confluence of rivers is visible from space.

The island houses the ruins of a secret nuclear fusion lab that once employed high-profile Nazi scientists

The inspiration for the Patagonia Clothing logo, Cerro Fitz Roy turns pink at sunrise.

Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife.

The world's largest ship graveyard is the product of decades of corruption.

This fortified sand barrier dividing a contested territory is the longest minefield in the world.

This record setting conveyor belt system can even be seen from space.

Once a bustling fishing village and trading post, today these Cape Verde ruins provide a home only for seabirds and turtles.

Rolling sand dunes of the Sahara... in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

This ship carrying cargo and four church bells for the Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida ran aground in 1968.

The most remote tree in the world survived desertification, but not a drunk truck driver.

Deep in the Negev Desert, the world's tallest solar tower looks like a sight straight out of science fiction.

A town whose main resource was blue asbestos... what could possibly go wrong?

A series of eerie metal stick figures are spread out over four square miles on the bed of a huge salt lake in the Australian Outback.

An outback test site for the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult.

Prehistoric park filled with the fossils of dozens of extinct species including Australian megafauna.

The holes in the world's longest golf course are in a series of different towns.

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

Site of the largest volcanic eruption in the last 25 million years, one which may have nearly wiped out humanity altogether.