The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

A magically clear, blue river that seems to spring from nowhere.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

Mirrors and glass shards cover every inch of this arrestingly beautiful mosque.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland's second largest island emit an entrancing sound.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.