Myanmar, a small Southeast Asian country nestled between China, Bangladesh, India, Thailand, and Laos, still holds some mysteries.
Arid steppes, tropical rainforests, glaciers, fjords—Patagonia, which stretches from Argentina to Chile, boasts many breathtaking landscapes, but access is challenging due to its “cruel geography.”
Significantly lesser-known than its Saharan counterpart, the Namib Desert, located in Southern Namibia, is included on the list of the most unknown and unexplored deserts on the planet.
Take Mount Everest and drop it nine kilometres (six miles) under the ocean and you’d still have to swim about one kilometre (3,300 ft) up before reaching the surface.
This 1,200 sq. km (460 sq. mi) national park located in Northern Queensland, Australia, is home to the oldest ecosystem in the world.
This hard-to-access mountain range, located in Papua New Guinea, is one of the most humid places on Earth. That’s understandable, considering it receives about 10,000 mm (390 in.) of rain each year.
Greenland isn’t devoid of human activity, but almost. Its population is just shy of 60,000, which is not that many considering the territory spans 2 million sq. km (772,000 sq. mi).
To say that this Vietnamese cave is enormous would be a massive understatement. This cave, the largest of its kind on Earth, could hold an entire skyscraper.
This Russian territory located in Northern Siberia is home to roughly one million people. Around 20% of this huge republic lies above the Arctic Circle.