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Apr 6, 2020 · 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.
- Curvy Forest
- Web Trees
- Wandering Rocks
- Light Pillars
- Snake Mounds
- Devil’s Ring
- Spotted Lake
- Fingers of Death
- Dirty Thunderstorms
- Animals Gone Wild
Here's a strange part of mother nature. These trees grew like this as saplings. They've been around for 90 years and around 400 of them are growing like this. Nobody knows why.
In India sometimes it rains heavily, this can lead to strange things happening. These spiders wanted to do anything to get out of the rain so they fled their sanctuary when the water started coming in. It looks like a horror movie.
People also call these wonders "sailing stones". They are not a part of any specific area and are found around the world. Death Valley does have the biggest concentration of them though. Nobody knows exactly what these stones move but they can travel up to 300 ft per day. These giant tones can be as heavy as 700 pounds.
Here's a very pretty part of nature. They are called solar pillars and feel ghostly. The way this works is that light reflects off of ice crystals and beams if up. Even the moonlight can do this.
Another not so unexplainable one but a very freaky one. The garter snakes come together into beautiful balls and some gigantic ones have even been spotted in North America.
In Turkmenistan, there's a place called the "Door To Hell" The crater is located in a natural gas field that's been around for decades. No one knows how it came to be for sure.
Here's one that'll make anyone with Trypophobia run for the hills. In summer this lake melts leaving briny water and mineral deposits. These shallow pools look beautiful or terrifying depending.
These icicles are underwater and often called brinnacles. The interaction is a combination of saltwater and the sub-zero temperature. It might not sound that exciting, but keep in mind this interesting phenomenon wasn’t discovered until the 1960s. Can you imagine the surprise on those diver’s faces? Nature is so amazing.
While scientists have figured out regular lightning storms, they have quite figured out the volcanic versions. Since they can’t get close to an erupting volcano (duh), it’s hard to understand what causes this, they are just left with educated guesses. Spewing magma is already scary if you’re up close and personal with the event, but adding in some ...
It’s common sense that we should respect Mother Nature, but once in a while people can forget that some animals are not as gentle as they seem. There have been more than a few cases of octopi latching on to sailors or divers. One even enveloped a diver (gear, camera, and all) and tried to drag him away.
- 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.
- 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.
- From Australia’s bubblegum-pink lake to a blood-red waterfall in Antarctica, these seven destinations are some of the world’s strangest sights. Majestic mountains and sparkling seas always attract travellers – but sometimes nature has a bigger trick up her sleeve.
- Frozen methane bubbles, Canada. They look otherworldly, like flying saucers that dropped into the water and froze, or ancient, ice-encapsulated jellyfish.
- Blood Falls, Antarctica. The name says it all. Blood Falls, in East Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys, looks like slowly pouring scarlet-red blood, staining snowy white Taylor Glacier and Lake Bonney below.
- Sailing Stones, US. When visitors stumbled upon scores of heavy stones that appeared to have moved across the dried lake bed of Racetrack Playa in California’s Death Valley National Park, leaving a tell-tale trail in their wake, scientists were baffled.
Dec 22, 2016 · The World’s Strangest Natural Wonders. Ever played the game of Twister on water? The green, yellow, and brown polka dots that form on British Columbia’s Spotted Lake each summer make it look ...
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