Skeleton Coast National Park stretches for about 500 kilometres along Namibia’s northwestern Atlantic coast, from the Ugab River toward the Kunene River. The park covers roughly 16,390 square kilometres of beaches, dunes, gravel plains, ephemeral riverbeds, canyons, and rugged mountain landscapes. Cold Atlantic water from the Benguela Current helps produce frequent coastal fog, which can extend inland across the desert.

Eden is a coastal town on the Sapphire Coast of New South Wales, set around the deep waters of Twofold Bay near the Victorian border. Its location combines a working harbour, beaches, forested headlands, and a strong connection with the sea. Twofold Bay is one of the deepest natural harbours in the Southern Hemisphere and remains central to the town’s fishing, boating, and whale-watching activities.

Bagamoyo is a historic coastal town in Tanzania’s Pwani Region, facing the Indian Ocean north of Dar es Salaam. Its old town contains Swahili, Arab, and German-era buildings, while the shoreline remains connected to fishing and dhow construction. Bagamoyo developed as an important port and inland caravan terminus, linking the coast with trading routes across the interior.

Crazy Horse Memorial stands in the Black Hills of South Dakota, between Custer and Hill City, where a massive mountain carving is being created to honor the Lakota leader Crazy Horse and the cultures of Native American peoples. The sculpture is cut directly into Thunderhead Mountain and is designed to depict Crazy Horse on horseback, pointing toward his ancestral lands

Gokyo is a small settlement high in Nepal’s Khumbu region, set beside a chain of turquoise glacial lakes beneath the Himalaya. Its significance is closely tied to trans-Himalayan trade routes and to Sherpa culture, which has adapted over generations to life at extreme altitude.