This collection brings together locations that challenge the norms of conventional tourism. It offers the chance to discover places where nature, history, and human activities have created astonishing sites: a complex of 732 unfinished villas in Turkey, a Mexican island where hundreds of dolls are hung in trees, a Canadian lake with mineral-formed multicolored basins, and a Polish forest of 400 pines with mysteriously bent trunks facing north. The route also includes unique human-made creations, such as an art installation representing an isolated Prada store in the Texas desert, or the Japanese village of Nagoro where an artist populated the streets with 350 dolls after the residents left. Geological phenomena are also featured, including Darvaza crater in Turkmenistan, which has been burning continuously since 1971, the Great Blue Hole in Belize, a 124-meter-deep underwater cavity, and Colombia’s Caño Cristales river that changes color to red, yellow, and green from July to November. These destinations provide a different perspective on our planet and invite exploration of lesser-known facets of our world.
Mudurnu, Turkey
This complex comprises 732 identical houses in French style that remained unfinished following the real estate market collapse.
Xochimilco, Mexico
This island displays hundreds of dolls hanging from trees and buildings as a memorial to a drowned girl.
Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada
Spotted Lake forms numerous round salt pools during summer evaporation, which appear yellow, green or blue due to different minerals.
Gryfino, Poland
This pine forest contains 400 trees with trunks curved toward the north. The trees were planted during the 1930s.
Valentine, USA
This permanent art installation displays a closed concrete and glass Prada store in the Chihuahuan desert of Texas.
Meta, Colombia
The river displays red, yellow, green, blue and black hues between July and November due to different aquatic plants.
Tokushima, Japan
After residents moved away, an artist placed more than 350 life-sized dolls in public spaces.
Turkmenistan
This 70-meter-wide crater formed in the Karakum Desert burns continuously since a drilling accident ignited the natural gas in 1971.
Belize
A 124-meter deep underwater cavity in the barrier reef seabed with a diameter of 300 meters.
Ukraine
This city was built in 1970 for workers of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and housed 50,000 residents until its complete evacuation on April 27, 1986.
Lithuania
A pilgrimage site with over 100,000 religious crosses, visited by believers since the 19th century.
Idaho, USA
Dog Bark Park Inn is a 9-meter tall wooden building shaped as a beagle, functioning as a two-bedroom hotel.
Japan
This 80-meter tunnel features wisteria vines growing over metal arches, forming a passageway covered with hanging purple flowers.
Matamata, New Zealand
This permanent film location features 44 hobbit houses built into the green hills of a working sheep farm.
Antofagasta, Chile
This concrete sculpture rises 11 meters high from the Atacama desert sand and represents a human hand.
Oregon, USA
This basalt rock crater reaches a depth of 6 meters and fills with seawater during high tide.
Huainan, China
This road bridge features a star-shaped design that produces musical tones through its special construction as vehicles cross over it.
Datong, China
This temple complex from the 12th century is attached to a vertical cliff face with wooden beams, 50 meters above the ground.
Maranhão, Brazil
This national park covers 155,000 hectares of white sand dunes, where thousands of turquoise freshwater lagoons form between January and June during the rainy season.
Rangali Island, Maldives
This restaurant sits five meters below sea level inside a transparent acrylic dome, offering views of coral reefs and tropical fish.
Juneau, Alaska, USA
These caves form through the melting of Mendenhall Glacier. The frozen water creates blue vaulted tunnels within the ice.
Middle Island, Western Australia, Australia
This saline lake derives its pink hue from microorganisms living in the water. The coloration remains constant regardless of season or water extraction.
Abhaneri, Rajasthan, India
This geometric well from the 9th century has 3500 steps on 13 levels. It reaches a depth of 30 meters.
Denizli, Turkey
This geological formation results from calcium carbonate-rich thermal springs that have created white limestone deposits on natural terraces over thousands of years. The spring water exhibits temperatures between 35 and 100 degrees Celsius.
Waitomo, New Zealand
These caves host thousands of fungus gnat larvae that produce points of light on the ceilings and reflect in the underground waterways.
Paro, Bhutan
Buddhist temple built into a vertical cliff face at 3120 meters elevation in the Paro valley.
Palermo, Italy
Underground burial chambers containing 8000 preserved bodies in various clothing from 1599 to 1920.
Shiraz, Iran
This 19th-century mosque features colored glass windows that project geometric light patterns onto the floor and carpets when sunlight streams through.
Big Sur, California, USA
A 24-meter waterfall drops directly into the Pacific Ocean at an inaccessible beach in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park.
Gansu, China
This geopark displays sandstone formations with colored mineral layers of iron oxide and other elements created through geological processes.
Jukkasjärvi, Sweden
This hotel is built each winter from blocks of Torne River ice and features rooms, furniture and artworks created from frozen material.