15 Unique Places As Beautiful As They're Scary

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north yungas road in bolivia
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is one of the most picturesque and most
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hazardous roads in the world
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just imagine biking along a cliff trail
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at a
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mind-numbing height overlooking the lush
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bolivian jungle
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and misty mountains at a distance what a
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view
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but as soon as you realize you're riding
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on a 10 foot wide stretch of road
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some of which isn't even paved you might
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get skin crawls
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and for a good reason over 200 folks
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tumble to their demise each year on this
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devious mountain climb
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and the absence of any guard rail
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doesn't help at all
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now if you're more into walking consider
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the husseini bridge in pakistan
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it's officially the most dangerous
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hanging bridge in the world
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but hardly the only one in the country
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it's a long and nerve-wracking traverse
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over lake borat with many planks of the
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bridge missing
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and the whole construction creaking
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ominously in the wind
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still the place has become a major
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tourist attraction
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although the old and broken bridge
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visible nearby
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only adds to the impression that you're
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inevitably going to fall to a screaming
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end
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well at least you can be thankful that
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the lake beneath is not lake natron in
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tanzania
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if you fall into water you still have a
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chance of survival
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if you fall into the waters of natron
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not so much
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the ph levels here are skin melting 10.5
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what passes for water is more like an
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alkaline soup
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no wonder this place is so peaceful
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pretty much nothing wants to live here
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and yet flocks of flamingos come to lake
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natron to breed every few seasons
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and it becomes a white pink paradise for
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the period
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positively
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which can't be said about the danikel
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depression in ethiopia
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despite its beautiful otherworldly
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landscape
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it's perhaps the loneliest place on
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earth yellow
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orange and green mounds are made of salt
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sulfur and iron
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creating views like nowhere else on the
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planet
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yet the combination of temperature and
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toxic minerals
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makes this place absolutely unlivable
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researchers coming here haven't found
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even microscopic life in this valley
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really like another planet beautiful and
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desolate
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on the other hand there's an island
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that's bubbling with life
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yet still you don't want to be there
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it's called
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snake island and the name says it all
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it's chock full of snakes
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in fact there are so many of them
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especially the venomous varieties
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that brazil has forbidden access to the
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island to any and
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all visitors but even if it wasn't
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closed off
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not many would be brave enough to go to
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a place where a single step
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offshore could land you a venomous bite
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now i'll bet that fly geyser in the
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middle of the nevada desert
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was created partly because humans became
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jealous of that
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this place had been just another bit of
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desert until
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1916 people came here to drill a water
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well
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they quickly saw the error of their ways
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though the water came out boiling hot
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and unfit for drinking 50 years later
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there was another attempt
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but the same thing happened we don't
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learn do we anyway
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hot water never stops spewing from under
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the ground
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and today we have a massive geyser
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cluster
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colored in shades of red orange and
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yellow
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now i say let's take a break from things
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that could bite burn or crush you
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and take a walk in a serene forest we're
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in japan
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and it's sagano bamboo forest a
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marvelous natural park
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where you can't help but hush your voice
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and just look
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and listen too because the sound of the
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wind in the bamboo trees
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is the first ever officially recognized
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soundscape
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all the more surprising to find such a
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place just
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half an hour's ride from kyoto one of
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the busiest cities in the country
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take a deep breath of fresh air now
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you're going to need it
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we're going underwater behold the great
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blue hole
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apparently named by captain obvious it's
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one of the most beautiful places on the
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planet
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located off the coast of belize this
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giant sinkhole is a massive tourist
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attraction
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especially popular among divers it's
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actually a whole
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cave system and they say it gets weirder
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and more picturesque the deeper you die
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beware though it's popular among sharks
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too and both
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bull sharks and hammerheads have been
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spotted here more than once
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here have a towel and prepare for some
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barbecue
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the darvasa gas crater is waiting a huge
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hole again
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this time in the ground and burning over
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50 years ago
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geologists found this spot in turkmenia
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central asia
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and were quite a bit alarmed there was
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an enormous deposit of methane a highly
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flammable gas
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underground they set it on fire to
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prevent the gas from spreading
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and since then the holes kept burning
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it's over 200 feet across
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and 100 feet deep and no one knows when
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it'll finally run out of fuel
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is it too hot again well let's have a
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little swim with jellyfish then
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jellyfish lake on one of the rock
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islands in palau
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is perfectly described by its name in
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2005
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there were about 30 million of these
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creatures here
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although today only 700 000 of them
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remain
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their number is growing and tourists can
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actually swim with them
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until they get stung that is okay
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kidding these jellyfish don't have
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stingers so it's safe
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until they decide to grow stingers of
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course
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from the depths we're going even deeper
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the gomentong caves are our next stop
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the cave system on the island of borneo
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could have been batman's hideout
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given how many bats live there at night
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these nocturnal animals fly out of the
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cave in the thousands
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making you wonder why you're still there
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watching it but
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if you're brave enough to go inside the
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cave you can truly marvel at the variety
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given to us by nature
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because there on the floor and walls of
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the cave
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lie tons of bat droppings giving food
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and home to millions of cockroaches
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parasites
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and giant centipedes wondrous okay i'm
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out of here
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now if you're as easy to get away as i
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am here's a place to go
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medite national park in bolivia it's one
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of the largest protected areas in south
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america
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and is home to an immense variety of
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animals birds and insects
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i could do without the mosquitoes but
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it's still among the few places where
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you could see
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wild macaws monkeys capybaras and dozens
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of other creatures
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still it's better to be careful because
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wild animals aren't always happy to see
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you
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and there are known cases of attacks on
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tourists
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ever wanted to feel like frodo baggins
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in middle earth
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here's your chance in iceland there's a
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slumbering volcano named
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frigga gigerth that welcomes guests to a
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tea party
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now don't confuse this with another
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infamous icelandic volcano a a fiet la
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you cook
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yeah it's easy to mix them up they sound
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so similar
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here tourists are actually ushered down
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into the volcano
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and spent close to an hour inside
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looking at the magmatic landscape
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they say three nucleigor can't wake up
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all of the sudden
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but who knows don't forget to bring the
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ring of power
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just in case from the lowest dungeon to
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the highest peak
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and here we are at mount hua in china
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it's called the most dangerous hike in
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the world for a reason
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it's high it's crazy scary and it's a
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hike
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at the height of seven thousand feet
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which already makes me reconsider
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there are several wooden planks nailed
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to the sheer wall of the mountain
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when you get to the start of the hike
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you put on safety gear
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and realize there's no turning back you
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have to walk
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all the way and then back but if you're
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lucky
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you'll see a crowd of hundreds of
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tourists and decide not to spend hours
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waiting for your turn
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finally to really creep you out i'm
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taking you to preprio
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in ukraine if you watch the tv show
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chernobyl
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you probably know what happened in this
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area if you didn't see it
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well don't have a meltdown much of the
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town is still
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off limits for visitors but there are
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already guided tours around the place
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as haunting as it is the landscape has
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some magnetic force
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the silence makes you keep as quiet as
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you can
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also you can see with your own eyes what
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happens when people abandon a whole city
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nature takes back what once belonged to
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it creeping vines along the walls and
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lampposts
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trees and bushes sprouting from under
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concrete
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and the main attraction in this desolate
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place
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is the rusty old ferris wheel that sure
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shivers my timbers