10 Most Extreme Places on Earth

Mt. Chimborazo (Ecuador) –highest point on Earth

Marianas Trench (Indonesia and Japan) –lowest point on earth

The Dry Valleys (Antarctica) – driest place on Earth

Lut Desert (Iran) –hottest place on Earth

Angels Falls (Venezuela) –Earth's highest waterfall

Tristan de Cunha (UK) –most remote inhabited archipelago on Earth

Oymyakon (Russia) – coldest inhabited place on Earth

Lloro (Columbia): wettest place on earth

Mount Thor (Canada) – Earth's greatest vertical drop

Dead Sea (Jordan) – Earth's lowest elevation