Mount Everest:
- Location: Border of Nepal & China in Himalayan Mountains
- Description: Mount Everest is the highest point on Earth at 29,029 feet above sea level. It attracts many highly experienced mountaineers as well as capable climbers willing to hire professional guides. There are two main climbing routes, one approaching the summit from the southeast in Nepal (known as the standard route) and the other from the north in Tibet.
Grand Canyon:
- Location: Arizona, U.S.
- Description: The Grand Canyon is 277 miles long, up to 18 miles wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6,093 feet). It's recognized as a natural wonder because of the overall scale and size, combined with the beautifully colored landscape. It offers a variety of lookouts and experiences that provide visitors with a view that cannot be matched.
Great Barrier Reef:
- Location: Off coast of Queensland, Australia
- Description: The great barrier reef can be seen from outer space and is the world’s largest individual formation created by living organisms. As the largest coral reef in the world, the Great Barrier Reef includes over 900 islands, over 2,900 separate reefs, and supports one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world.
Victoria Falls:
- Location: Border of Zambia & Zimbabwe
- Description: Victoria Falls is a waterfall in southern Africa on the Zambezi River at the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe. It's classified as the largest waterfall based on its width of 5,604 feet and height of 354 feet, resulting in the world's largest sheet of falling water. It is roughly twice the height of North America's Niagara Falls and well over twice the width of its Horseshoe Falls.
Harbor of Rio de Janeiro:
- Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Description: Also known as Guanabara Bay, it's surrounded by gorgeous granite monolith mountains that include the famous Sugar Loaf Mountain at 1,296 feet, Corcovado Peak at 2,310 feet, and the hills of Tijuca at 3,350 feet. Visitors can also experience numerous islands including Governor’s island, Fundao and Snakes Island.
Aurora Borealis:
- Location: Arctic Regions
- Description: Also known as the Northern Lights, they're naturally occurring lights that create spectacular and colorful displays in the sky. They frequently appear as a diffused glow lighting up the horizon or as waves across the sky. The best places to see them are Alaska and northern Canada. Norway, Sweden and Finland also offer excellent vantage points.
Parícutin:
- Location: Michoacán, Mexico
- Description: Paricutin is a dormant scoria-cone volcano located in the Mexican state of Michoacán, about 200 miles west of Mexico City. It erupted suddenly from the cornfield of local farmer in 1943, attracting both popular and scientific attention. It presented the first occasion for modern science to document the full life cycle of an eruption of this type. By 1952, the volcano left a 1390 foot high cone and significantly damaged a 375 square mile area with the ejection of stone, ash and lava.
