Each year, teams of the world's best snow sculptors have 65 hours to create frozen masterpieces.

Every winter, the wind carves blocks of frozen water into beautiful abstract shapes inside this unusually curved tunnel.

This remote research station sits amid the second-largest ice sheet on the planet.

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.