15 Mutant Photos of Nature That Will Leave You in Awe

Mysterious, enchanting, dreamy. These photos from around the world are beauty and magic, all in one.

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True colours

The landscape here is so colourful and alien-like, you almost don't see the sun shining brightly above it.

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Ice ice baby

Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the Alaska panhandle west of Juneau is sleek, smooth and spectacular. And cold. Like, one of the coldest places in the world you can live cold.

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Lava love

What looks like squiggly lines is actually an active crater lake in Mount Nyiragongo in the Congo.

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It was all a dream

The large dunes at New Mexico's White Sands National Monument at dusk are a fantastical thing.

Tulip and foliage reflecting off one another

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Tulip fever

The flowers are stunning on their own, but add in the surrounding foliage and it almost takes your breath away.

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Something fishy’s going on

Yes, pineapplefish — native to the coastal waters off Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia — are a real thing. Really, there are almost too many things to see in Australia.

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Lost in space

Speaking of abstract beauty ...

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Serenity now

If you're headed across the pond, this aerial view of the Atlantic Ocean is as peaceful as it gets.

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Sky’s the limit

The landscape at sunset against the cloud-filled sky makes it look like another planet.

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Smoke show

Stuck between an amber rock and a smoky place, this is like fine art.

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Top of the morning

When you picture Ireland, you imagine rolling hills of green, not this northern landscape. But there's more to it (like these things you probably didn't know about Dublin, for starters). The way the midsummer sun and fog hits, it's practically desert-like.

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Another world

Like going to Mars without actually having to go to Mars.

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Red hot

Fireballs to the wall.

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Fiji water

Sunset on the waters around Coralview Island Resort in Fiji transform tranquil turquoise to these gorgeous purply hues.

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Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana

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Bridge to nowhere

The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana is one of the longest non-suspension bridges in the world. It's almost like it disappears.

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