8 Stunning Destinations That Are Out Of This World

Chocolate Hills

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.

Spotted Lake

Giant, colourful polka dots cover the surface of this lake in Osoyoos. Although the water looks a little like a child’s painting, these mysterious spots are entirely natural.

Fly Geyser

It looks as if this psychedelic geyser was plucked from an alien planet and plonked into the rugged countryside of Washoe County.

Avenue of Baobabs

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.

Valle de la Luna

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.

Papakōlea Beach

Hawaii’s beaches span the rainbow and this one, in the south of the Big Island, is an earthy green, which is how it got its nickname 'green sand beach'.

Malham Cove

This unearthly landscape in northern England looked right at home in Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows – Part 1, when Harry and Hermione pitched up here on one of their magical adventures.

Vatnajökull

Iceland makes good on its nickname, the “Land of Ice and Fire”, with this sprawling glacier, the largest not just in the country, but in Europe too.

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