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• October 29, 2011 Johntron liked Ascension Island
  

  Ascension Island, Saint Helena

  Ascension Island

  Remote, volcanic island that Darwin, Hooker, and the Royal Navy shaped into a thriving, artificial ecosystem

  Ascension Island is just a dot on the globe: a tiny chunk of cinder, 90 kilometers square, almost half way between South America and Africa. Geologically speaking, the island is fairly young.... »

  Natural Wonders, Weird Weather Phenomena, Martian Landscapes, Anomalous Islands, Geological Oddities, Extraordinary Flora | Edited by Trevor and Nicholas Jackson

• October 29, 2011 Johntron liked The Root Bridges of Cherrapunji
  

  Shillong, India

  The Root Bridges of Cherrapunji

  Centuries-old bridges, grown from tangled roots

  In the depths of northeastern India, in one of the wettest places on earth, bridges aren't built—they're grown. The southern Khasi and Jaintia hills are humid and warm, crisscrossed by... »

  Extraordinary Flora, Rites and Rituals, Long Now Locations, Outsider Architecture | Edited by bertieinindia, wythe and 6 others

• October 29, 2011 Johntron liked The Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India
  

  Trisul, India

  The Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India

  A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them…

  In 1942 a British forest guard in Roopkund, India made an alarming discovery. Some 16,000 feet above sea level, at the bottom of a small valley, was a frozen lake absolutely full of skeletons.... »

  Natural Wonders, Weird Weather Phenomena, Watery Wonders, Memento Mori, Relics and Reliquaries, Intriguing Environs, Disaster Areas | Edited by Dylan and Rick

• October 29, 2011 Johntron liked Relampago del Catatumbo
  

  Relampago del Catatumbo

  This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone

  There's something strange in the air where the Catatumbo River flows into Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela... For 140 to 160 nights out of the year, for 10 hours at a time, the sky above the river... »

  Weird Weather Phenomena | Edited by wythe, mrobscurity and 2 others