A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

A pub that is literally in the middle of nowhere, but continues to do business.

The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

The cafe that acts as the social hub for the small volcanic island of HMS Bounty fame.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

Romania's "Red Ravine" is a little-known natural wonder that bears a resemblance to the Grand Canyon.

A 1,500-year-old, 3-story subterranean city where ancient Persians took refuge in times of war.

Local lore says the devil built this beautiful medieval bridge to help a fleeing bandit.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

The largest radio telescope in the world searches for extraterrestrial life from the remote limestone peaks of southern China.

Nuclear waste experts study this prehistoric crater lake to envision landscapes one million years in the future.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

Elaborate patterns adorn the city's disappearing traditional architecture.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

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