White Sands National Park takes up a glorious pocket of southern New Mexico, its rippling powder peaks forming the largest gypsum dunefield in the world.
There are beautiful lakes all over the world, but this one in Australia is extra special. Lake Hillier is an eye-popping expanse of fuchsia water on Middle Island, off mainland Western Australia.
Upwards of 1,000 neat, conical mounds spread out across the Philippines’ Bohol region. They’re gift-wrapped in lush green grass which browns in the summer, leaving the area looking a little like a box of chocolates.
Giant, colourful polka dots cover the surface of this lake in Osoyoos. Although the water looks a little like a child’s painting, these mysterious spots are entirely natural.
With their fat, smooth trunks and striking splay of branches, baobab trees look like they belong somewhere in outer space. And there’s an entire, otherworldly avenue of these alien specimens in western Madagascar.
The sheer magnitude of the trees at Sequoia National Park will make you feel as though you've left Earth and entered the realm of the giants.
Hawaii’s beaches span the rainbow and this one, in the south of the Big Island, is an earthy green, which is how it got its nickname 'green sand beach'.
This unearthly landscape in northern England looked right at home in Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows – Part 1, when Harry and Hermione pitched up here on one of their magical adventures.
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