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Found: A 7,500-Year-Old Stone Drill Bit
Useful!
Mansfield, England
The Druid Stone
An enigmatic natural rock formation with a manmade passage cut through the center.
Laupahoehoe, Hawaii
Kaluakauka (Doctor's Pit)
The spot where the namesake of the Douglas fir met his mysterious end on a Hawaiian volcano.
geology
Found: Giant Mounds and Craters Across the Arctic Seafloor
Aka methane burps.
Rere, New Zealand
Rere Rockslide
Nature's slip and slide.
volcanoes
Scientists Have Figured Out How Floating Islands Work
Spongy rocks don't exactly act like sponges.
Chedglow, England
Colin's Barn
Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.
Bemidji, Minnesota
Fireplace of States
This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.
Sydney, Australia
Aboriginal Carving of a Whale
An ancient engraving by the Cammeraygal people was uncovered in the transformation of a North Sydney industrial site.
volcanoes
Signs of an Ancient Volcanic Eruption Found 3,000 Miles Away
From Russia's Far East to Norway, this ash traveled a very long way.
Jekyll Island, Georgia
Driftwood Beach
Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.
Ngorongoro, Tanzania
Ol Doinyo Lengai
This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.
Kissimmee, Florida
Monument of States
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.
Charlotte, North Carolina
Big Rock Nature Preserve
These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.
Grenada
Kick 'Em Jenny
A violent name for a violent volcano.
Nampa, Idaho
Map Rock
A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.
Minsk, Belarus
Museum of Stones
A unique park tells the geological history of Belarus in a national “map” of thousands of boulders and blue spruce.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Bayers Lake Mystery Walls
No one knows the origins of the mysterious stone ruins discovered on a hillside in Halifax.
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