Check out 24 of the world’s must unusual landscapes — from the hellish Darvaza Gas Crater in Turkmenistan to the “snow monsters” of Mount Zao, Japan.

Made famous by renowned marine explorer Jacques Cousteau, recent submarine trips have created new 3D sonar maps ... Sahara looks pretty much like any other part of this continent-straddling desert ...

From orbit, Emi Koussi’s dramatic caldera and lava-scarred slopes hint at its fiery past, while dried lakebeds and erosion ...

A large ancient Egyptian fortress in the northern Sinai Desert had an elaborate landscape of 500 trees leading to its ...

The fascinating North African beings are thought to have roamed the Sahara Desert thousands of years ago. Their genetic makeup was shockingly different to what scientists usually expect to find ...

Sometimes known as the gateway to the Sahara, Mhamid and its surrounding ... in the face of climate change. (This desert oasis is a time capsule of Egypt’s grand past.) Sbai started as a tour ...

It may be the gateway to the vast Sahara desert, but that doesn't mean it's free of that modern scourge of the environment—the rubbish humanity discards. In southern Morocco, volunteers are ...

But there were many other "wonders" to see on the way. Christian monasticism began in the Egyptian desert: in the 4th century, St Anthony – later known as the "father of all monks" – went ...