Giant Crystal Cave, Mexico

Yes, this awesome crystal cavern is real. Yes, it looks like something out of your fantasy video game RPG. No, Superman was not actually born here. If you’ve ever been to the abode of a collecting hippie you might have seen one of these stalagmite crystals about as large as your arm standing upright and claiming to offer healing power. But if those proportionately tiny crystals can heal at all, we imagine standing in this Cave for ten seconds alone would vaporize your cancer like those kids on the swing set during the opening scene of Terminator 2. They had to drain the water from this cave under Niaca Mountain to reach it but now if you go and see it, it might be one of the most beautiful things you’ll ever find. As you can see, some of these crystals are over an enormous 40 feet long.

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

If you’re thinking this picture is a fake: you are wrong! If you’re thinking the man in this picture has died and gone to heaven, you’re probably right. Either that or this is the place that Belinda Carlisle was singing about in her hit 80’s smash, “Ooh Heaven is a place on Earth.” This divine looking locale can be found on an enormous salt flat in South America. It is essentially a group of transformed lakes now extremely dense. It also happens to be the coolest photo op ever. It is the largest salt flat in the world measuring a colossal 10,500 square kilometers.  When it’s covered in water it looks like the picture above. Amazingly, it also makes any average Joe Shmoe moseying along with a nonchalant stroll look like he’s Jesus with the ability to walk on water.

The Wave, Arizona USA

The only surfing you’ll be doing in Arizona is on these sandstone earthy rock formations straight from the Jurassic age. They look like an acid trip and might even be perceived as one on the right day (which would be only natural from the heat exhaustion after the necessary 10 km hike in the scorching Arizona desert).  A natural combination of the original sand dunes solidifying, calcifying, and eroding has given these “waves” their spectacular look. They only let 20 people enter the grounds per day who are given a permit from the Bureau of Land Management. So seeing them in person may be more difficult than reserving a table for two at the top of the Eiffel Tower.