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Geology

Earth Pyramids of Platten

Earth Pyramids of Platten

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

Silent Rock

Rhododendron, Oregon

Silent Rock

According to legend, you must remain completely silent while passing this man-made mound or suffer the consequences.

Hyden, Australia

Wave Rock

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

Japan's Sakurajima volcano lights up the sky.

Fleeting Wonders: A Lightning-Filled Volcano Doesn't Faze Japan

Cara Giaimo February 8, 2016

Staring into the Womb of the Earth

Högberget Cave

Crawling into this primordial cave may feel disconcertingly familiar.

Homestead Crater

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

Eureka Springs, Arkansas

Pivot Rock Park

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

El Arco

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

The Arch of Cabo San Lucas

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

Boarding Down the Slopes of an Active Volcano in Nicaragua

Urvija Banerji January 21, 2016

Chicken Farmer Rock

Newbury, New Hampshire

Chicken Farmer Rock

A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.

FOUND: The World's Largest Canyon, Hidden Under Antarctic Ice

Sarah Laskow January 14, 2016

Looking down the Burr Trail Switchbacks

Garfield County, Utah

Burr Trail Switchbacks

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

Shiprock

Shiprock, New Mexico

Shiprock

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

FOUND: A Hollow Shell of Lava, Unlike Anything Seen Before

Sarah Laskow January 13, 2016

Putangirua Pinnacles

Cape Palliser, New Zealand

Putangirua Pinnacles

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

Fragokefala at Lemnos

Volcanic Rocks of Lemnos

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

These rocks were rubbed smooth by mammoths.

Duncans Mills, California

Mammoth Rubbing Rocks

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

Timanfaya National Park

Timanfaya National Park

Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.