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1.​ Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia) – The world’s largest salt flat. After a thin layer of rain, the ground turns into a 4,000-square-mile natural mirror where you can’t tell where the earth ends and the sky begins.

1. ​Socotra Island (Yemen) – So isolated that a third of its plant life doesn't exist anywhere else on Earth, including the Dragon’s Blood tree, which looks like a giant flying saucer and bleeds dark red sap.

2. ​Zhangjiajie National Forest (China) – Over 3,000 towering quartz-sandstone pillars rising through the mist. James Cameron’s design team used these exact peaks as the blueprint for the floating Hallelujah Mountains in Avatar.

​Which one looks the most unreal to you, or what’s another real place on Earth that boggles your brain?