Étretat, a small coastal town in Normandy, France, is celebrated for its dramatic white chalk cliffs and natural rock arches that rise strikingly above the English Channel.

Tintern, a picturesque village in Monmouthshire, Wales, is nestled in the heart of the scenic Wye Valley. This charming destination is renowned for the atmospheric ruins of Tintern Abbey, a 12th-century Cistercian monastery that has inspired poets like William Wordsworth and artists such as J.M.W. Turner. Visitors are often captivated by the abbey's majestic presence and the serene beauty of its surroundings.

Lac Abbe, straddling the border between Djibouti and Ethiopia, is one of East Africa’s most otherworldly landscapes.

The Darvaza Gas Crater, famously nicknamed the “Door to Hell,” is one of Turkmenistan’s most extraordinary landmarks. Located deep in the Karakum Desert, this fiery pit has been burning continuously since the early 1970s, when Soviet engineers reportedly set fire to a collapsed natural gas field to prevent the spread of methane.

Founded in 1768, it is one of the South's major industrial centers for textiles, machinery and food products.