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An American islands that's off-limits to outsiders? What could be cooler than that? Competitive snowball fighting? Okay, maybe... This and more...

Wonderment abounds once more! Fighting the temperature outside, we bring you ten of the hottest links we could find on the web!

Garret Mountain is a large New Jersey park with views ranging from the Manhattan skyline to the New Jersey Highlands.

Crop circles have evolved from simple folk art into highly complex artworks.

The massive cliffs of Africa's Bandiagara Escarpment are home to the Dogon people, who have built into the rock and even bury their dead there, high up...

Chene Chapelle is a beautiful live old oak in a village in France with two chapels inside it.

Karni Mata is an Indian temple where rats are venerated.

We often think of islands as being places of paradise, but here are seven deadly islands that have killed or have the power to kill...

The adventure of a traveller crossing the border from China to Mongolia, as told through their eyes...

Do you think you can crack a cipher? Are you a good puzzle solver? If yes, you might be of great help to the FBI in solving a murder case.

Surreal images of churches appearing to float in the middle of lakes, drowned and half submerged as a result of man's desire to build reservoirs and dams.

A memorable trip taking in Maine's glorious natural majesty as well as its recent historic past in the 'Blueberry Capital of the World' - Cherryfield, Maine.

From the narrowest to the widest to the steepest, here are 10 of the strangest roads on Earth!

Kolmanskop was once a booming diamond town in the center of the Namib desert - now it is a ghost town, slowly being consumed by the sand.

Ten of the most incredible and gorgeous private islands that can be found anywhere on Earth.

Frost-bitten and paralyzed by brutally low temperatures nearly year-round, the people of Yakutsk carry on daily life in the world's coldest city.

For those vying for a not-so-obvious vacation, open your mind to Sayulita, a small fishing town on the coast of Mexico.

Sitting 1,500 miles away from its nearest neighbors, Tristan da Cunha is one of the most remote continuously occupied settlements in the world.

Take a tour of the Nevada Test Site, home to more nuclear detonations than any place on Earth.

Graveyards hold a strange mystique for many people. Some consider them tranquil havens where lost loves can be remembered and celebrated, yet to others they are eerie enc