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El Salvador
Lago Coatepeque
This color-changing crater lake in El Salvador is occasionally impenetrable to sunlight.
Nye County, Nevada
Easy Chair Crater
An unusual double cinder cone with a bent oval crater, in the Lunar Crater Volcanic Field.
Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise, France
Lac Pavin
This volcanic crater lake is renowned for its perfectly round shape, stunning blue-green waters, and unique geological properties.
Cleft, Idaho
Crater Rings
Two geologically young and nearly circular volcanic subsidence craters, each about a half-mile in diameter, abruptly break the nearly featureless Snake River Plain.
Grenada
Grand Etang
This lake with an inactive volcano underneath is often said to be bottomless.
sinkhole
Siberia’s Doorway to the Underworld Is Getting Even Bigger
Say goodbye to a million cubic meters every year.
Ligao, Philippines
Kawa Kawa Hill
This "hill without a hilltop" has become a famous public pilgrimage site during Holy Week.
Rapa Nui, Chile
Kotepokouri Rano Kau
A volcanic crater that visitors can look inside.
abandoned
Nevada’s Extraterrestrial Highway Is Full of Earthly Wonders Too
Explore a catastrophic space rock strike, unique flora and fauna, and millennia-old rock art on this famous stretch of desert road.
Gypsum, Colorado
Dotsero Crater
Colorado's only active volcano last erupted around 4,000 years ago.
meteorites
These Tranquil Canadian Islands Are Remnants of a Violent Space Rock Impact
Lake Superior's Slate Islands are home to what's likely the world's largest shatter cone, evidence of an explosive event 450 million years ago.
Duckwater, Nevada
Meteorite Crater
Despite the name, it's unclear if this small depression in northern Nye County was actually caused by falling space debris.
Fallon, Nevada
Soda Lakes
Two craters, which probably erupted within the last 1,500 years and are now filled by alkaline lakes, represent Nevada's youngest known volcanic activity.
Permanently Closed
Wetumpka, Alabama
Wetumpka Impact Crater
One of almost 200 confirmed impact craters in the entire world, untouched for tens of millions of years.
Bangoua Kouni, Comoros
Lac Salé
Legend says this remote, “bottomless” lake was created by a curse.
meteorites
When Is a Crater Not a Crater?
There's no punchline, this massive geological structure in Greenland just probably isn't a crater.
dinosaurs
What a Buried Crater in Mexico Says About the Asteroid That Doomed the Dinosaurs
And why the scars left by meteoritic impacts tell us about life, the universe, and everything.
In Amguel, Algeria
Amguid Crater
One of the best-preserved impact craters on the planet is located in the middle of the Sahara Desert.
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