Visit Caño Cristales

Climb 740 steps up the El Penol monolith for views over a maze of turquoise reservoir lakes.

A salt lake turned pink by algae, where salt-gatherers wade waist-deep and the water floats you.

The "Eye of the Sahara" from the ground.

White dune fields that fill with turquoise rain lagoons every wet season.

Mineral springs that have petrified into white waterfalls of stone above the Oaxaca valleys, with cliff-edge pools you can swim in.

Wind-carved chalk mushrooms and icebergs of rock glowing at sunset — camp overnight under the Sahara stars.

See the Kawah Ijen volcano in Indonesia, famous for its blue flames and turquoise crater lake

Witness rare desert wildflower blooms that occur after rainfall in locations like Chile's Atacama Desert or California's Death Valley