The world's largest wine cellar.
Vast underground wine "streets".
Fog-bound desert shore of shipwrecks, seal colonies and dunes dropping into the Atlantic.
Off-grid dune village of sea lions.
The "Manhattan of the Desert", UNESCO-listed.
Soviet-era stations of chandeliers, mosaics and marble โ photographed legally only since 2018.
Paez Vilaro's white cliffside villa.
Rope bridge swaying 30 m above the sea to a tiny fishing island.
Island of alien dragon-blood trees.
The "inland sea" where dunes meet water.
Eerie avenue of ancient beech trees.
Vivid 5,000-year-old cave paintings.
Soak in a naturally warm pool on an uninhabited island, icebergs drifting past.
Renaissance castle built into the mouth of a cliff cave, with secret tunnels used by a robber knight.
Dead camelthorn trees, 900 years old, black against a white clay pan and the worldโs tallest red dunes.
Lone 400-year-old tree in the desert.
The world's oldest and largest spaceport.
Waterfall dropping through three natural bridges into a cave shaft.
Young fissure volcano between spreading tectonic rifts.
Submerged sunken forest in a turquoise lake.
One of the few waterfalls on Earth that pours straight into the ocean.
Swim with the wild pigs of Big Major Cay.
Otherworldly landscape of limestone chimneys.
"Venice of Africa" โ a whole town on stilts in Lake Nokoue.
Switchback railway descending a near-vertical Andean wall at Alausi.
Gilded boulder balanced on a cliff edge, crowned by a small stupa.
The worldโs highest commercial bridge bungee โ a 216-metre drop off the Garden Route.
Eroded "moon landscape" near the coast.
Bubbling grey cones on the Caspian steppe โ half the worldโs mud volcanoes are here.
Ancient Islamic city of 82 mosques, where hyenas are fed by hand at night.
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