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Rocks

Hyden, Australia

Wave Rock

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

Eureka Springs, Arkansas

Pivot Rock Park

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

Chicken Farmer Rock

Newbury, New Hampshire

Chicken Farmer Rock

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

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.

FOUND: A 4.5 Billion Year Old Meteorite, Almost Swallowed By the Earth

Sarah Laskow January 7, 2016

Meoto Iwa

Meoto Iwa

This pair of small sea rocks has been "wed" using rope and ancient Shinto tradition.

Bungle Bungle Range

Purnululu, Australia

Bungle Bungle Range

These Australian rock formations look like Martian beehives that have grown up out of the landscape.

One of the rocking boulders

Oyndarfjørður, Faroe Islands

Rinkusteinar

Two massive boulders, rocking back and forth with the ebbing of the sea.

Permanently Closed

Freetown, Massachusetts

Profile Rock

This 50-foot rock formation looked like a face that was once believed to be that of a Native American chief.

The Top - Moro Rock at Sequoia National Park

Three Rivers, California

Moro Rock

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

Sapodilla Hill carving

Providenciales and West Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands

Sapodilla Hill Carvings

This island hill is strewn with boulders carved by shipwreck victims from the age of sail.

Trail Sign for the Snow Hole

Petersburg, New York

The Snow Hole

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

The Goldstone today

The Goldstone

This craggy boulder is fabled to be either a druidic relic or Satan's stumbling block.

The cliffs at Calvert Cliffs State Park

Lusby, Maryland

Calvert Cliffs State Park

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

The Rock at Pagua

Atkinson, Dominica

The Rock at Pagua

A flower grows on this giant stone that is said be able to control minds.

The lower set of petroglyphs

Bellows Falls, Vermont

Bellows Falls Petroglyphs

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.