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Extraordinary Places

Sites that rewrite what you thought a place could be.

An eroded volcanic plateau of fairy chimneys, rock-cut churches and underground cities in the heart of Anatolia.

The world’s largest collection of coral reefs, stretching some 2,000 km along Queensland — about 2,500 reefs and more than 900 islands.

Nearly three kilometres of cataracts on the Argentina–Brazil border, wrapped in one of the last great remnants of the Atlantic Forest.

Japan’s 3,776-metre volcano is a World Heritage site for its culture, not its geology — a mountain of pilgrims, shrines and woodblock prints.

More than half of the planet’s active geysers, a caldera 75 km long, and the last wild bison that never stopped roaming.