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The barren rockscape of south-eastern Utah resembles the surface of some fantastic planet. Rugged pillars of rock, sculpted to every imaginable shape and size, just up from the desert floor. But far more astonishing are the 200 or so stone arches ...

To the eye of the osprey (a large fish-eating hawk) soaring overhead, Western Brook Pond looks like a shimmering jewel dropped by a giant hand. The jewel's landing place is the bottom of a 2000ft (600m) deep canyon, cut into the ...

From the plains beside it, the rim of Meteor Crater looks like a low hill, giving no hint of the immense hollow it surrounds. Blasted out when a giant meteorite struck the ground here around 50, 000 years ago, the crater ...

Weird pinnacles of rock seem to float like a mirage on the brilliant blue waters of Mono lake, which gleams like of jewel in a setting of sand flats and sagebrush ringed by mountains. ' A country of wonderful contrasts, hot ...

Countless tributaries swell the great Congo River on its long curve to the Atlantic from grasslands on the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia. They drain an area of rainforest and high grassland roughly the size of India. ...

Glowing rose-red and turquoise in the midnight sun, and trailing a long banner of steam over ross Island's miles of snow and ice, Mount Erebus is the very symbol and beacon of Antarctic exploration. At its feet lies the modern sprawl ...

Mammoth Cave owes its name to its size, not to relics of long-gone mammoths. Carved from limestone hills in Kentucky by trickles of acidic water over millions of years, the cave has some 330 miles (530km) of passages, possibly more, on ...

Long ago, when the United States was hardly out of its teens, you could sometimes find leathery backwoodsmen who told tales of a fabulous land to the west where fountains of boiling water ascended high past the trees as the floor ...

Trying to imagine the vastness of the River Amazon is almost as difficult as trying to comprehend infinity - the mind reels at its staggering immensity. With its countless tributaries, the Amazon drains an area of South America almost the size ...

Grazed by the rays of a low sun, the towers and canyons of the Bungle Bungle form a dreamy panorama that glows as if lit from within. The astonishing tiger-striped domes loom in surreal granduer from the plains of the Ord ...

Shiva is worshipped in many forms and many places. He is worshiped as a primary deity by the people of India and Nepal, he is also worshiped as an important aspect of the Hindu religion, and is considered the supreme lord ...

One of the most satisfying ways of achieving greatness must be to stumble across it while you are searching for something else - take Christopher Columbus and the New World, for instance, or Vasco da Gama and India. Another such was ...