Welcome to The Complete Nature Pilgrim, a guide to the 100 most sacred and spectacular natural sites around the world. These places, chosen for their beauty and uniqueness, have captured the human imagination more than any other natural features on the planet. Come explore these magnificent places of our planet, and discover which ones may be found in your own neighborhood.
Bays/Fjords
- Misty Fjord || *Alaska
- San Francisco Bay || *California
- Bay of Fundy || Canada
- Guanabara Bay || Brazil
- Geirangerfjord || Norway
- Bay of Kotor || Montenegro
- Phang Nga Bay || Thailand
- Ha Long Bay || Vietnam
- Bay of Islands || New Zealand
- Milford Sound || New Zealand
- Paradise Bay || Antarctica
Lakes
- Crater Lake || *Oregon
- Lake Tahoe || *California/Nevada
- Peyto Lake || Canada
- Lake Titicaca || Bolivia/Peru
- Lakes of Killarney || Ireland
- Lake Garda || Italy
- Plitvice Lake || Croatia
- Lake Nakuru || Kenya
- Dead Sea || Israel/Jordan
- Lake Baikal || Russia
Wetlands
- Everglades || *Florida
- Pantanal || Brazil/Bolivia
- Camargue || France
- Okavango Swamp || Botswana
- Kerala Backwaters || India
- Sundurbans || Bangladesh
Waterfalls
- Niagara Falls || *New York/Canada
- Yosemite Falls || *California
- Angel Falls || Venezuela
- Iguazu Falls || Argentina/Brazil
- Kaieteur Falls || Guyana
- Gullfoss/Golden Falls || Iceland
- Rhine Falls || Switzerland
- Ouzoud Falls || Morocco
- Victoria Falls || Zambia/Zimbabwe
- Boyoma Falls || Congo
- Jog Falls || India
- Pearl Shoal Falls || China
Forests
- Redwood Forest || *California
- Amazon Rainforest || Brazil/Columbia/Peru
- Halle Forest || Belgium
- Black Forest || Germany
- Crooked Forest || Poland
- Congo Rainforest || Congo/Cameroon
- Spiny Forest || Madagascar
- Jiuzhaigou Forest || China
- Sagano Bamboo Forest || Japan
- Daintree Rainforest || Ausatralia
Deserts
- Mojave Desert/Death Valley || *Nevada
- Salar de Uyuni || Bolivia
- Atacama Desert || Peru/Chile
- Namib Desert || Namibia
- Sahara Desert || Numerous
- White Desert || Egypt
- Thar Desert || India/Pakistan
- Gobi Desert || Mongolia/China
- Pinnacles Desert || Australia
Canyons
- Antelope Canyon || *Arizona
- Grand Canyon || *Arizona
- Bryce Canyon || *Utah
- Waimea Canyon || *Hawaii
- Copper Canyon || Mexico
- Colca Canyon || Peru
- Verdon Gorge || France
- Samaria Gorge || Greece
- Fish River Canyon || Namibia
- Blyde River Canyon || South Africa
- Tiger Leaping Gorge || China
Caves
- Carlsbad Caverns || *New Mexico
- Mammoth Cave || *Kentucky
- Cave of the Crystals || Mexico
- Fingal’s Cave || Scotland
- Eisriesenwelt Ice Caves || Austria
- Skocjan Caves || Slovenia
- Jeita Grotto || Lebanon
- Majlis al Jinn Cave || Oman
- Reed Flute Cave || China
- Mulu Caves || Malaysia
- Puerto Princesa River Cave || Philippines
- Waitomo Glowworm Cave || New Zealand
Geological Oddities
- Giant’s Causeway || Ireland
- Eye of the Sahara || Mauritania
- Aloba Arch || Chad
- Fairy Chimneys || Turkey
- Door to Hell || Turkmenistan
- Shilin Stone Forest || China
- Chocolate Hills || Philippines
- Moeraki Boulders || New Zealand
Underwater Wonders
- Belize Barrier Reef/Great Blue Hole || Belize
- Dean’s Blue Hole || Bahamas
- Deep Sea Vents || Ecuador
- Northern Red Sea || Egypt
- Palau Reefs || Palau
- Great Barrier Reef || Australia
- Mariana Trench || N/A
Glaciers
- Perito Moreno Glacier || Argentina
- Vatnajokull Glacier || Iceland
- Fedchenko Glacier || Tajikistan
- Fox & Franz Josef Glaciers || New Zealand
