Mountains

A relatively young Buddhist temple on hilltop, dedicated to a statue relocated from Mount Atago.

A small mountain made entirely of banded iron stone overlooking downtown Ishpeming.

The top of the holy mountain for the ancient Spartans looks like a pyramid—is it man-made or a natural phenomenon?

A stone from Africa's tallest peak is immortalized in a Potsdam palace—but is it actually the mountaintop?

This impressive ledge seems to float above the Upper Buffalo Wilderness.

An abandoned mountain village in Habib surrounded by walnut, apricot, and pomegranate trees.

A group of college students hauled a desk up a mountain more than 40 years ago. The notebooks inside have become a makeshift time capsule.

A short tunnel built straight through a magmatic dike.

A mountaintop shrine-temple guarded by a horde of half-demon priests.

A charming Amazigh village carved into a mountaintop.

This distinctive snowfield on the slopes of a Colorado fourteener has several legendary origin stories.

The remains of a 70-year-old military aircraft crash landing still sit on this Scottish hillside.

This trailside hut was built in the late 1930s as a memorial to a young hiker.