curious, mysterious and beautiful places around the globe.


0: Snake Island
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1: Ramree Island
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2: Sulfuric Island
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3: Suicide Forest
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4: Doll Island
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5: Chernobyl
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6: Sanzhi UFO Houses
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7: Unsinkable Sea
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8: Land without Country
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9: Southernmost Settlement
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10: Most Remote Settlement
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11: Haunted Mansion
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12: Area 51
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13: Dog Suicide Bridge
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14: Deadly Whirlpool
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15: Razor Stone Forest
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16: Northernmost Settlement
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17: Boiling Lake
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18: Deadly Brook
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19: Frying Pan Lake
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20: Komodo
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21: Centralia ghost town
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22: Twin City
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23: Hottest Place on Earth
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24: Coldest Place On Earth
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25: Mirror Glitch
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26: Coldest Town
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27: Driest Place on Earth
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28: Highest City
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29: Oil Rig City
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30: World Map Islands
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31: Alien Island
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32: Largest Swimming Pool
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33: Mysterious Island
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34: Google Forest
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35: Shipwreck
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36: Fighter Jet
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37: Island-Lake Recursion
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38: Largest Word
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39: High Resolution Elephants
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40: Deepest part of the ocean
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41: Eternal Lightning Storm
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42: Lava Lake
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43: The Mystery Spot
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44: Moving rocks
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45: Blood Falls
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46: Dry Valleys
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47: Gate to Hell
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48: Tunguska Blast
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49: Patomskiy Crater
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50: Bingham Canyon Mine
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51: Mir Mine
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52: Gigantic Stone Pillars
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53: Dyatlov Pass incident
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54: UFO Abduction
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55: Mapimí Silent Zone
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56: Haunted Vault
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57: The Money Pit
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58: Salt Desert
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59: Strange Lake
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60: Geometric Stones
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61: Crystal Mine
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62: Beautiful Lakes
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63: Moon Valley
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64: Angel Falls
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65: Two-Colored River
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66: Wettest Desert
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67: Shipwreck Beach
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68: Beautiful Waterfall
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69: Mont_Saint-Michel
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70: Cotton Castle
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71: Victoria Falls
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72: Iguaçu Falls
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73: Beautiful Stepwell
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74: Never Freezing Pond
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75: Saints in the Sky
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76: Google Earth Baloons
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77: White Desert
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78: Blood Hell Pond
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79: The Wave
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80: Fly Geyser
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81: Pink Lake
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82: Shrinking Sea
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83: One House Island
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84: Fairy Circles
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85: Musical Road
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86: Sea Organ
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87: Avatar Mountains
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0: Snake Island

Ilha_da_Queimada_Grande is home to five snakes to every square meter of one of the most venomous snakes on the world.


The Brazilian Navy bans any citizen from this island.


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1: Ramree Island

Site of the "The Greatest Disaster Suffered from Animals" 

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"Of about one thousand Japanese soldiers that entered the swamps of Ramree, only about twenty were found alive"


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2: Sulfuric Island

Miyake-jima  has the highest concentration of sulfur in the air of the whole planet, and it is habited.


Citizens are required to carry gas masks all the time and raid alarms go off frequently.


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3: Suicide Forest

Aokigahara is a forest known for its numerous suicides, more than 500 people are known to have taken their own lives here. The Japanese government doesn't publicizes the correct number in an attempt to dissociate the forest with suicide. 


Several signs telling people to reconsider the decision as well as skeletons and objects of the dead can be found around.


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4: Doll Island

Isla de las Muñecas is home of hundreds of terrifying mutilated dolls.


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5: Chernobyl

Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone and the ghost city of Prypiat


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7: Unsinkable Sea

The Dead_sea  is the lowest land in Asia and the world, being 423 meters bellow sea level.

Due to the high amounts of salt, humans float in its waters.


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8: Land without Country

Bir_Tawil is a piece of land of over 2 thousand square meters that is claimed by no country, being a terra nullius ("no man's land").


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9: Southernmost Settlement

Puerto_Toro is the southernmost human settlement in the world, excepting research facilities in Antarctica.


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10: Most Remote Settlement

Edinburgh_of_the_Seven_Seas is 2173 kilometers from the nearest human settlement


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11: Haunted Mansion

Winchester_Mystery_House is a gigantic mansion designed to confuse the ghosts that haunt it


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12: Area 51

Area_51 is a military base surrounded by conspiracy. The US government didn't even acknowledge its existence until 2003.


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13: Dog Suicide Bridge

Overtoun_Bridge is a bridge where more than 600 dogs have leaped from. The dogs that survive the fall usually climb up and jump again.


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14: Deadly Whirlpool

Corryvreckan Maelstrom is a permanent and very dangerous whirlpool that can toss boats over 200 meters deep


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15: Razor Stone Forest

Tsingy_de_Bemaraha is a forest of razor-sharp rocks that seem to rise from the ground.


It's vast majority remains unexplored. Every time a team goes in expedition they find approximately 5 new species.


 


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16: Northernmost Settlement

Alert is the northernmost permanent settlement of the world, with a population of 5.


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17: Boiling Lake

This Boiling_Lake has a temperature of about 85º Celsius around its edge, no measure could be taken at the center.


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18: Deadly Brook

The Bolton Strid is a section where the river wharfe funnels from 18 meters to only 2 meters wide.


 
No one who has fallen in it was ever known to survive. Since the bodies were never found, it's assumed there is an intricate system of underground caves that traps anything that falls in the brook.


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19: Frying Pan Lake

Frying_Pan_Lake is the largest boiling lake in the world.


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20: Komodo

Komodo island is the home of the komodo dragon, the world largest lizard.


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21: Centralia ghost town

Centralia is a town that inspired silent hill. 

 
mine fire destroyed most of the city and it still burning underground as of today. Toxic smoke rises from the ground constantly.


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22: Twin City

Candido Godoi is a city that has an unusual rate of twins, 10% of total births.

 
There's a conspiracy about nazi experiments in this town's population.


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23: Hottest Place on Earth

Dallol has an average temperature through the year of 34º celcius


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24: Coldest Place On Earth

Vostok_Station is the place with the lowest temperature ever recorded, reaching -89º Celsius


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25: Mirror Glitch



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26: Coldest Town

Oymyakon is the town with the coldest temperatures ever registered.


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27: Driest Place on Earth

The Antofagosta Region is the driest place in the earth, there are places in this desert that never rained in all recorded history.


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28: Highest City

La_Rinconada is the highest city in the world, at 5,100 meters above sea level.


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29: Oil Rig City

Neft Da?lar? is a fully funcional city build in the caspian sea that is also the first offshore oil plataform in the world.

Has a population of about 5.000 people and over 300km of streets.

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30: World Map Islands

The_World is a man-made archipelago in Dubai


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31: Alien Island

Socotra Island has one of the most peculiar vegetation of the world.


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32: Largest Swimming Pool

in the San_Alfonso_del_Mar resort lies the worlds largest swimming pool with a maximum depth of 35 meters and 1 kilometer long, there is even a submarine in it.


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33: Mysterious Island

This island doesn't show up in any navigational map and it's strangely blacked-out in every satelite picture.


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34: Google Forest

Mount_Mabu, is the largest rainforest of southern Africa.

 
Though known by locals, first appeared in the maps when it was discovered by scientists through the use of google earth in 2005


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35: Shipwreck

Shipwreck of the S.S. Jassim, one of the most visible from satellite.


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36: Fighter Jet

Fighter Jet Parked in a residential neighborhood.


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37: Island-Lake Recursion

Island in a lake in an island in a lake in an island.

It's likely that no human has ever set foot here.


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38: Largest Word

Billionaire Sheikh Hamad bin Hamdan had his name writen in an island he owns.


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39: High Resolution Elephants

One of the few high resolution images in google earth.


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40: Deepest part of the ocean

Mariana_Trench is the deepest part of the ocean, with a  a maximum-known depth of 10.994 km.


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41: Eternal Lightning Storm

The Catatumbo_lightning is a place where lightning storms occur for about 10 hours a night, 140 to 160 nights a year, for a total of about 1.2 million lightning discharges per year.

It can be seen up to 400 km away and has been used for ship navigation.


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42: Lava Lake

Mount Nyiragongo's lava lake has at times been the most voluminous known lava lake in recent history.


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43: The Mystery Spot

The Mystery_Spot is a gravity hill in California, where water appears to flow upstream.


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44: Moving rocks

The Moving Rocks of Death Valley are still a subject of research.


The rocks move in different directions and big rocks appear to move while smaler ones stay still


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45: Blood Falls

Blood Falls is a red outflow of liquid that reveals the presence of a unique bacteria with a metabolism never seen before and biochemical interactions not yet understood by specialists.


 
This ancient microbial population was sealed off by the glacier over 1.5 million years ago, being almost an alien in our own planet.


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46: Dry Valleys

Dry_Valleys is a desert in Antarctica.


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47: Gate to Hell

Derweze is a cavern filled with natural gas that was set on fire over 40 years ago and is still burning as of today.


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48: Tunguska Blast

The Tunguska event was an explosion that happened in 1908 believed to be caused by a comet.


 
It's the largest impact event on recorded history


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49: Patomskiy Crater

the Patomskiy_crater is a mysterious formation that although is called a crater doesn't have the usual format of one. Several expeditions were sent but it's origin remains a mystery.

Strange electric and radioactive anomalies, people disappearing/dying near it and a strange "antenna" found underground led conspirationists to believe there is a spaceship buried in this place.


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50: Bingham Canyon Mine

Bingham Canyon Mine is the deepest open-pit mine in the world.


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51: Mir Mine

Mir_mine is a huge open-pit diamond mine.


 
The airspace above it is closed after several accidents where helicopters were sucked in by the air flow.


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52: Gigantic Stone Pillars

The Manpupuner_rock_formations are 7 stone pillars of around 35 meters tall formed through the effects of ice and wind.


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53: Dyatlov Pass incident

The Dyatlov_Pass_incident is very mysterious and still unsolved incident involving the death of 9 hikers.


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54: UFO Abduction

The Valentich_disappearance in 1978 is a well known case of UFO disappearance.


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55: Mapimí Silent Zone

Mapimí_Silent_Zone is a place where strange magnetic anomalies prevent radio transmission and it's said that mutations on fauna and flora occur.


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56: Haunted Vault

The Chase Vault is a vault that seems to arrange it's coffins randomly every time the same is opened. The sand shows no signs of steps or water and the seal looks perfectly intact.


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57: The Money Pit

The Money Pit is a pit in a private property that some say a treasure lies within. Several attempts to dug it's treasure failed due to several reasons.


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58: Salt Desert

The Salar_de_Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat.

When it rains, it becomes a giant mirror.


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59: Strange Lake

The Spotted_Lake is a series of several highly mineral small ponds.

During summer most of the water hardens and it forms natural walkways in between the ponds.


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60: Geometric Stones

the Giant's_Causeway is a strange rock formation caused by a volcanic eruption.


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61: Crystal Mine

The Naica_Mine is a mine filled with giant crystals.


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62: Beautiful Lakes

The Plitvice_Lakes_National_Park is one of the most beautiful places in europe.


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63: Moon Valley

Vale da Lua is a touristic location in Brazil. It's famous for it's rocks shaped in a way that resembles the moon


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64: Angel Falls

Angel Falls is the World's highest waterfall.


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65: Two-Colored River

Two rivers of different colors meet here and don't quite mix for over 5km. Creating a two-colored river.


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66: Wettest Desert

The Lençóis Maranhenses park consists of a series of dunes and several small lagoons in between them.


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67: Shipwreck Beach

The Navagio Beach is an amazing beach in Greece.


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68: Beautiful Waterfall

Havasu Falls is a waterfall located in the Grand Canyon.


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69: Mont_Saint-Michel

Mont_Saint-Michel is a small island with a monastery.


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70: Cotton Castle

Pamikkale (literally "cotton castle") is a series of natural hot springs terraces.


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71: Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls is the largest sheet of flowing water in the world, some turists dare to swim in natural pools formed on it's top.


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72: Iguaçu Falls

The Iguaçu Falls is the widest waterfall in the world, having a width of 2.7 kilometers.


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73: Beautiful Stepwell

The Chand_Baori is a famous step well.


It's build this way for an easy reach of the water regardless of it's level.


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74: Never Freezing Pond

The Don Juan Pond is a small pond in Antarctica that remains liquid even at temperatures bellow -30º celcius. This is due to it's high salinity, 18 time higher than the oceans.


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75: Saints in the Sky

Strange sighting in Google Street View, just look to the sky.


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76: Google Earth Baloons

Switch to google earth view to see this baloons over Cappadocia.


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77: White Desert

In Farafra surroundings there are several chalk formations that resemble mushrooms.


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78: Blood Hell Pond

This hot spring is called Blood Hell Pond by the locals, it features red boiling waters.


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79: The Wave

The Wave is a beautiful vermilion rock formation that resembles waves.


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80: Fly Geyser

FLy Geyser is a geothermal geyser in Nevada


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81: Pink Lake

The Lake Retba becomes pink in some seasons of the year, due to an micro-algae.


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82: Shrinking Sea

The Aral Sea was one the forth greatest lake in the world.


 
Soviet projects diverted the rivers that fed it in the 60's, the lake's been shrinking ever since.


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83: One House Island

There are six of the Vestmann_Islands that only have one small cabin on it.


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84: Fairy Circles

The Namibian Desert is packed with small circles in which grass just won't grow.


 
Research shows that the circles have a life span of a few decades. Despite over 25 years of study, this phenomena remains unexplained by science.


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85: Musical Road

When you drive through that road, a song playes


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86: Sea Organ

The Sea Organ is an experimental musical instrument which plays music by way of sea waves and tubes located underneath a set of large marble steps.


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87: Avatar Mountains

Wulingyuan is a beautiful landscape that was the source of inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie Avatar, and even changed it's name because of it.


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