Some Cool, 'Wonders of the World'.

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Semuc Champey, Guatemala.

This natural limestone cascade drops gently down the mountainside to create a series of falls and clear turquoise pools

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Viñales Valley, Cuba.

This amazing valley and its surrounding limestone monuments seem like a picture out of Southeast Asia rather than the island of Cuba.

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Mount Roraima, Venezuela.

Venezuela’s highest tabletop mountain, with its pyramid-like steps and cascading waterfalls, is so high that it’s perpetually ringed by masses of swirling clouds.

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Palais Ideal du Facteur Cheval, France.

Created by a local mailman over the course of several decades, this folly almost looks like something straight out of Tomb Raider.

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Chapelle St-Michel d’Aiguilhe, France.

Towering high over the surrounding town of Le-Puy-en-Velay, this stunning chapel dates back over 2,000 years.

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Ruins of Leptis Magna, Libya.

These sprawling ruins, with their colonnades, triumphal arches, and amphitheater, display some of the most delicate and intricately carved motifs left to us from the Romans.

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The Archeological Site of Meroë, Sudan.

Once the capital of the Kingdom of Kush, Meroe is home to a series of fabulous tombs and mausoleums and has produced stunning artifacts from antiquity.

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Cuicul (Djémila), Algeria.

This ancient Roman town is unique due to its mountainous locale and boasts several temples, public and private buildings, as well as an impressive amphitheater.

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Lauca World Biosphere Reserve.

A truly stunning landscape, this reserve encompasses broad ranges of plateau, all at nearly 10,000 feet above sea level. The area is dotted with various archeological sites and is home to wide range of animal species.

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Maelifell, Iceland.

This beautifully – not to mention unusually – formed volcano is entirely swathed in bright green moss and ringed by serpentine glacial rivers and streams.

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Transfiguration Church, Kizhi, Russia.

This extraordinary display of mass onion domes and arches, all done in wood, is an early 18th century marvel not to be matched anywhere else.

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Portmeirion, Wales.

This charming seaside town, built along the hillside of a peninsula in Wales, is unique for its design scheme, as it’s more reflective of an Italian town than a coastal Welsh village.

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Standing Stone of Callanish.

Every bit as mysterious and magical as more well-known Stonehenge in England, these Scottish Neolithic stones are composed of a circle of stones as well as lines of stones that radiate from it.

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Anjar, Lebanon.

These 8th century ruins are incorporated into the small town of the same name and was originally constructed by builders and artists from Turkey and Egypt at the behest of local rulers.

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Baalbek, Lebanon.

Known in its original days as Heliopolis, both under the rule of Alexander the Great and later the Romans, these ruins date back over 2,000 years, with overall settlement here going back as far as 9,000 years.