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Torres del Paine in Patagonia. The mountains are steeper than you thought possible

I worked on converting some coal mines in SW Indiana/SE Illinois to solar. Didn’t at all comprehend the scale until I visited.

Point Pelee Peninsula. I have mapped the Great Lakes many times, and it stands out as a jagged triangle. Then in 2017 I was flying to Montréal, and I saw it from the air, and was just overwhelmed with emotion at seeing the lakes spread out before me, almost maplike, but not quite.

Not GIS, but the first few times wandering around Manhattan and suddenly getting weird deja vu because of some open world activity I did in the Lego Marvel games.

Jerash / Gerasa in Jordan. I had spent months working with a 0.1m lidar DTM and loads of aerials, including hefty use of ArcScene & some messing about with VR. When I went there it was so different I freaked out because the maps i made from all that data were based on a flawed understanding of place

Great Langdale, Cumbria. Had studied the OS map in detail beforehand and highlighted some walks but driving down the lane towards the end of it I nearly came off the road a few times gawping in wonderment.

Is “all of them” a fair answer?

The Uncompahgre Plateau in western Colorado. I have been to many remote places but this felt like our own private wilderness.

Holuhruan lava field in Iceland. Much more rugged and beautiful on the ground.

All of them. I'm fascinated by this phenomenon