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Bright bluish pinpoints cluster into constellations over our heads as we float down the Waitomo River--some 50 feet underground

Antarctica's most active volcano

The author sought desert adventure and found herself at home with a bedouin family

A 4,000-square-mile salt plain of such precise flatness that satellites use it to calibrate laser-guided altimeters

Can the artistic free-for-all go green?

The Dolomites, Italy

Mt. Monadnock, New Hampshire

Andohahela National Park, Madagascar

Volcán Osorno, Chile

The 9,572-foot peak lies in the heart of the Wallowa Mountains, the result of a late Jurassic magma upwelling at what was once the western edge of North America