This alien looking geyser on the edge of Black Rock Desert is actually man made. Man made by accident, that is. There are actually two geysers on the property. The first was created nearly... »

Martian Landscapes, Geological Oddities, Disaster Areas | Edited by Tre and Dylan

In the Namib-Naukluft National Park, in the central Namib Desert is a strange and alien landscape. Found among towering red dunes is an area known as Sossusvlei. The dunes that surround the... »

Natural Wonders, Martian Landscapes, Extraordinary Flora, Wonders of Salt | Edited by kwinb and Dylan

In 2001, in Azerbaijan, something unexpected happened. The ground began to move in an unusual way... "It looked as though an animal was trying to get out of the ground...There was a big... »

Natural Wonders, Fiery Wonders, Martian Landscapes, Geological Oddities | Edited by Dylan

The Berkeley Pit is a former open-pit copper mine in Butte Montana, and now one of the only places in the world where you can pay to see toxic waste; admission is two dollars. The sheer scale of... »

Watery Wonders, Martian Landscapes, Disaster Areas | Edited by jamesb, bopo and others

190 million years ago, one of the greatest geological formations began to take shape. In the Coyote Buttes ravine, some 5,225 feet above sea level, stands Arizona's Wave Rock. Wave Rock has a... »

Martian Landscapes, Geological Oddities | Edited by re_nakaba

3,800 square-miles of salt flat spread out across Bolivia's remote southwest. Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt flat in the world, an endless sheet of hexagonal tiles (created by the crystalline... »

Natural Wonders, Martian Landscapes, Geological Oddities, Wonders of Salt | Edited by Dylan and wythe

A pingo, also called a hydrolaccolith, is a mound of earth-covered ice found in the Arctic and subarctic that can reach up to 70 metres (230 ft) in height and up to 600 m (2,000 ft) in diameter.... »

Weird Weather Phenomena, Martian Landscapes, Geological Oddities | Edited by banff

It might look like it's straight out of a sci-fi movie, but this natural wonder is completely real, and fully awe inspiring. Mount Roraima, bordered by three different countries (Venezuela, Brazil... »

Natural Wonders, Martian Landscapes, Geological Oddities | Edited by Genki

Taking a trip to Lena's Pillars is no easy task. Your trip will start in Moscow city where you will take a four day journey to the Siberian area of Yakutsk which is the equivalent flight distance... »

Natural Wonders, Martian Landscapes, Geological Oddities | Edited by Gina

The battling forces of fire and ice created the Devils Postpile: over 400 unusually symmetrical columns of basalt towering six hundred feet high, on the eastern side of the sierras, just outside... »

Martian Landscapes, Geological Oddities | Edited by Tre