This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

The abandoned village of Skarð aptly illustrates the idiom "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

A winding, blood-red tunnel of hardened lava navigable by foot.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

Outsider Art Community.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

Ruins of a German Castle on top of a towering stone pillar.