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Apr 6, 2020 · Courtney Bonnell/AP. 1 of 24. Our planet is full of bizarre natural wonders. See 24 photos of the strangest – from sizzling hot Dallol, Ethiopia, to the Fairy Chimneys of Cappadocia, Turkey.
- Light Pillars, Canada. This incredible phenomenon occurs when ice crystals are suspended in the air due to extreme cold conditions. The crystal then reacts with every light source around and create this stunning view.
- Bioluminescent Shore, Maldives. Again, this might seem magical and otherworldly, but bioluminescent phytoplankton actually creates this view of a starry shore.
- Lenticular Clouds. Lenticular clouds are stunning everywhere, but especially so when they hang atop the Mayon Volcano crater! Report. 73 points. POST. Tash.
- Moonbow, Hawaii. Commonly known as lunar rainbows, they differ from regular rainbows in that the moon's beams produce them rather than the sun. Report. 68 points.
- Tender Touch by Andy Parkinson. When these two courting mountain hares came together, U.K.- based photographer Andy Parkinson expected the female to reject the male’s advances.
- The Happy Turtle by Tzahi Finkelstein. Israeli photographer Tzahi Finkelstein largely ignored this Balkan pond turtle when he first saw it while taking pictures of birds in Israel’s Jezreel Valley.
- Ice Bed by Nima Sarikhani. After a fruitless three-day search for polar bears aboard an expedition vessel off the coast of the Svalbard archipelago in Norway, the U.K.-
- Missed Sip of Milk by Karim Iliya. For a young humpback whale, nursing can be kind of clumsy. Whales and dolphins do not have lips, so they can, on rare occasions, miss some of their mother’s milk, losing it to the ocean.
- Jervis Bay, Australia. Australia’s Jervis Bay is actually home to the whitest sandy beach on the planet, but visitors don’t flock here for whiter-than-white sand.
- Spotted Lake, Canada. Hidden away in British Columbia, Canada’s Spotted Lake (known to First Nations people as Kliluk) is straight out of science fiction.
- Danakil Depression, Ethiopia. If aliens exist on Earth, they exist here. The Danakil Depression in Ethiopia is a weirder-than-weird piece of wonder that is the result of three tectonic plates diverging and leaving behind lava lakes, acidic springs and more.
- Zhangye Danxia, China. It's easy to convince yourself that the swirling colours of China’s Zhangye Danxia mountains are actually a painting, but this gorgeous landscape is very, very real.
- Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia. When a prehistoric lake dried up about 30,000 years ago, it left an endless expanse of white hexagonal tiles that stretch to the horizon.
- Asbyrgi Canyon, Iceland. Legend has it that the Asbyrgi Canyon in northern Iceland was created when the hoof of a Norse god’s horse touched the earth, slicing through 300-foot-tall cliffs and flattening an area just over two miles long and more than a half mile wide.
- Lake Retba, Senegal. It looks as if someone poured a giant bottle of Pepto-Bismol into Lake Retba—that’s how deeply pink these waters are. The color is actually caused by a particular kind of algae called Dunaliella salina that produces a pigment.
- Marble Caves, Chile. Six thousand years of wave erosion created the undulating patterns that give these caves their marbleized effect, enhanced by the reflection of the blue and green water of Carrera Lake, near Chile’s border with Argentina.
Sep 16, 2016 · From a landscape of bubbling, gurgling mud volcanoes to swirling, blue walls hidden in a cave, the world is dotted with spectacular, natural oddities that may seem too strange to be real.
Sep 23, 2020 · From an odd tree that has a single branch of an apple tree to a frog so tiny, your fingernail looks like Everest in comparison, these are some of the most amusing examples spotted by people and shared in the Reddit community r/mildlyinteresting.
