Rocks

A desert that evokes the surreal.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

This striking landscape in northern Vietnam contains both geological and archaeological wonders.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

These mysterious circular formations are actually remnants of 19th century gristmills.

A huge collection of rocks, gems, and crystals.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Etchings in a pile of boulders on the Long Island Sound are a monument to vanquished native peoples.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

One woman's lifelong collection is on display in this unassuming house on an Icelandic fjord.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.