Iran's colorful terraces are a rare geological masterpiece.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

Putrefaction plateaus in Iran, where the dead were sent for decontamination before going to their final resting place.

This peculiar lake of pitch is so thick and viscous that one can walk on its surface.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

In the Middle Ages, villagers would sound this stone trumpet to boost fertility and coax fish to shore.

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

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

A precariously perched golden rock defies gravity and brings pilgrims from across Myanmar.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

This tiny business claims to be "the smallest pub on the planet."

Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America. 

The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.

An underground city of salt.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.