Places That Are Famous for the Strangest Reasons

The island of Socotra looks like it belongs on another planet. Isolated in the Indian Ocean, this Yemeni territory is so remote that a third of its plant life is found nowhere else on Earth. Its most famous resident is the bizarre Dragon’s Bl**d Tree. Shaped like an umbrella, it gets its name from the dark red sap it oozes when cut. This otherworldly landscape earned the island UNESCO World Heritage status in 2008. Socotra’s fame comes from being a living museum of evolution, a place where nature wrote a story you can’t read anywhere else.