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154 extraordinary places from across the planet.
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Prometheus Cave
An underground cathedral where Georgia turns limestone, river, and myth into light
Martvili Canyon
A limestone corridor where Georgia's green river cuts through a drowned ancient world
Lake Sørvágsvatn
A lake that appears to float hundreds of meters above the sea
Grand Prismatic Spring
A pool that burns through every color a rainbow owns
Salto Golondrina
A curtain of water falling past a lagoon that time forgot
Qingshan Lake
A drowned forest breathing green beneath still water
Horseshoe Bend
A 270-degree meander where the Colorado River doubles back on itself around a single stranded slab of sandstone
Aniva Lighthouse
A crumbling Japanese-built lighthouse standing alone on a sea stack, once powered by a nuclear isotope generator
Bozzhyra Valley
A chalk-white canyon on the Ustyurt Plateau that looks like the floor of an ancient sea, because it was one
Katskhi Pillar
A 40-meter limestone monolith with a hermit's church balanced on top, and one monk who calls it home
Wave Rock
A 15-metre granite wave has been frozen mid-break for 2.7 billion years in the Western Australian plain
Yuanyang Rice Terraces
Two thousand years of hand-cut mountain terracing has turned a Yunnan ridge into a mirror for the sky
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