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Australia

Horizontal Falls

This pair of Australian "waterfalls" appear to be falling straight across the land.
Port Campbell, Australia

Loch Ard Gorge

A clear example of the process of erosion in action.
Australia

Ball's Pyramid

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.
Katoomba, Australia

The Giant Stairway

A massive stairway that almost wasn't leads to one of Australia's most scenic vistas.
Australia

Lake Hillier

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.
Lakeside, Colorado

Lakeside Amusement Park

One of the oldest continuously operating amusement parks in the U.S. is an open-air museum of Art Deco and neon lights.
Gasquet, California

Darlingtonia Trail

A carnivorous plant paradise in a serpentine bog.
Horse Cave, Kentucky

Hidden River Cave

Once one of the most polluted caves in America, now an environmental success story and a museum dedicated to caves.
Antsalova, Madagascar

Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park and Nature Reserve

Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife.
Exmouth, Australia

Ningaloo George

A fibreglass sculpture of a whale shark on the grounds of a petrol station.
Sequoia National Park, California

General Sherman

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).
Hume, California

General Grant

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.
Thorpdale, Australia

Site of the World's Tallest Tree

The massive mountain ash that once stood at this site was cut down in an effort to prove that it was, indeed, the tallest of its kind.
Denham, Australia

Emu Rising Mosaic

This public work of art pays tribute to an early Aboriginal Australian constellation pattern.
Northern Territory, Australia

Rainbow Valley

This sacred site lives up to its name with its majestic, color-splashed sandstone formations.
Litchfield Park, Australia

Magnetic Termite Mounds

Let these towering termite-building structures tell you where to go.
Kakadu, Australia

Ubirr Rock Art

Kakadu National Park is known for its stunning beauty and its rock art, which represents the longest historical records of any continuous civilization on Earth.
Las Vegas, Nevada

Desert National Wildlife Refuge

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Southern Cross, Australia

Yilgarn History Museum

This small museum celebrates the history of an Australian town known as the "Gateway to the Goldfields."
Porongurup, Australia

Castle Rock

A metal skywalk leads to the top of this striking granite outcrop in Porongurup National Park.
Yanchep, Australia

Alex T. Brown Shipwreck

The last vestiges of this ship are mostly buried beneath the sand dunes.
Las Vegas, Nevada

Underground House

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.
Pagosa Springs, Colorado

The Mother Spring

No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.
King Salmon, Alaska

Valley of 10,000 Smokes

In 1912, this idyllic Alaska landscape was blown apart in the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.