Incredible destinations that need to be seen to be believed
It might look like it belongs in a Star Wars movie, but this landscape is very much on planet Earth. The craggy area makes up Dinosaur Provincial Park which (as its name suggests) is rich in fossils from numerous dinosaur species.
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.
It looks as if this psychedelic geyser was plucked from an alien planet and plonked into the rugged countryside of Washoe County. But it was actually the result of human activity.
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
This arid stretch of the Atacama Desert lives up to its name. Valle de la Luna means “Valley of the Moon” and the cracked landscape is, indeed, about as lunar as you’ll find on this planet
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.