A Ring of Fire, Millions of Monarchs and Other Rare Natural Phenomena Worth Traveling For

Photo caption: About 100 miles northwest of Mexico City in the UNESCO-designated Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, up to a billion of the brilliant-winged insects spend November to March clustered on branches. Photo credit: Sylvain Cordier / Getty Images. Article by Lauren Oster. Smithsonian Magazine – January 20, 2023.

Travel satisfies and whets our appetite for wonder all at once. The more you explore, the more you realize just how much more there is of the world to see. These eight magnificent and unusual natural sights call for careful planning from spectators—and if you make the effort to coincide with them, your view of everything else might change as well. […]

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