Cracking Art Group's ethically responsible approach to ambient art involves creating outsized animal assemblages expressed in colorful recycled plastic.

Geysers have entranced observers from time immemorial with their sudden appearances, explosive power and the ability to conjure up rainbows on a cloudless day.

Villagers in Rawa Buaya, Indonesia, believe if they lay down on the railway tracks, electrical energy carried within the steel rails will cure their ills.

Hudson Bay's Nastapoka Arc may superficially resemble the many frozen lava “seas” of the moon but its actual origins are much more down to Earth.

Summer's arrived and China's green menace (a massive bloom of stringy, slimy, and smelly Enteromorpha Prolifera algae) has returned as well... we kudzu not!

A desert - in the middle of Japan? Not quite, but the Tottori Sand Dunes are a spectacular sight and a hidden gem for anyone visiting the area.

Immerse yourself in a new culture, learn valuable skills and make a difference on one of these 13 fun volunteer vacations in places like Belize and Australia.

On a beach in Mexico, garbage from around the world washes up and settles on the sand. Photographer Alejandro Duran manages to make this sad waste look lovely.

The Uros people have been creating and living on floating islands made of reeds for hundreds of years. The reeds provide their housing, boats, food & medicine.

Dazzling in variety and as unique as snowflakes, the sands of the world's beaches take on a whole new level of awesomeness when viewed up close and personal.

Travelers going through Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport can take a pleasant time out in the new indoor/outdoor nature park featuring "mixed reality technology."

Just off the coast of bustling urban Boston is Georges Island, home of a crumbling, mysterious civil war fort that is gleefully explored by ferried-in tourists.

A light burns eternally in a field in Turkmenistan. The Gates of Hell crater has been on fire continuously since 1971, creating a bizarre tourist attraction.

The ECCO camper concept RV by design firm NAU is a sleek, streamlined, zero-local-emission RV that's more winning than any old (or new) Winnebago.

Ancient paintings estimated to be 32,000 years old, found in a cave in France, are explored by director Werner Herzog in the film 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams.'