15 Surreal & Otherwordly Places on Earth

• From abandoned train tunnels of love, to caves full of killer luminescent worms,we count 15 of the wildest and strangely gorgeous places you'll find in our little blue world15 - Lake Natron • This one is located in Tanzania - a lakegiving off such a vivid hue due to its high evaporation rates• In the dry season, the water evaporates more than usual and salinity levels increaseto the maximum possible point, during which micro-organisms that thrive on salt beginto appear • Most of them produce a red pigment, coverthe lake's surface and gives off the impression of a glass-covered surface of Mars14 - Fly Geyser • A lot of folks who live in Nevada don'tknow about this one, and for good reason since it's located on a private Fly ranch, protectedby high fences and spiky locked gates • This one was partly created by accident,but still in a natural way - well drilling had ceased there for a long time and warmgeothermal water happened to find a weak spot, leading to spillage on the surface• Dissolved minerals began sculpting the landscape into this gorgeous site, with thevariety of minerals offering a wide variety of pigments13 - Tunnel of Love • This one is located in Ukraine, an abandonedtrain rail section, but today trees and fronds grow freely over the tracks• Curiously enough though trains continued to run through the forest of leaves to reachthe Kleven village, and the train forged a tunnel of leaves according to its size• Now, people tend to roam the tracks arm-in-arm with their partner - a true tunnel of love12 - Giant's Causeway • Northern Ireland, nestled next to theAtlantic Ocean we find a bizarre array of over 40,000 geometric columns with six sidesin a honeycomb-like pattern • Course, these weren't always around - ittook 60 million years for cooled magma erosion for these to appear, and you could only startto see them around 15,000 years ago • Today, they're a hotspot for tourist activity11 - Socotra • Located in Yemen, it's considered oneof the most unique archipelagos in the Indian Ocean purely for the diversity of flora andfauna • Here you can see an example of the alien-typeplants that grow, mostly as a result of the island's isolation from the rest of the landalong with the intense, constant heat and drought• This here is known as the dragon's blood tree, like a giant mushroom made of leavesand bark - Aboriginals gave it the name of dragon's blood due to its red sap10 - Juizhaigou Valley • This is part of a series of water basinsin China, and this particular one is the smallest • Though it's shallow, it also has a breathtakingunderwater landscape that's clear and brightly coloured, leading many to travel here justto gaze at it • The legends go Goddess Semo used to washher hair in this lake 9 - Mount Roraima• This is like a photo from a super-realistic version of Minecraft, but it's very much notphotoshopped • You'll find it in Venezuela and it's oneof the oldest formations on Earth, acting as a natural border between Venezuela, Braziland Guyana in South America • It actually served as the inspirationfor the Pixar film "Up", and this formation is SO large that water builds up to tremendousamounts, allowing the waterfalls to run continuously 8 - Fingal's Cave• Located in Scotland, a cave named after the 18th century hero from an epic poem, it'ssimilar in composition to the Giant Causeway with hexagonal basalt columns created by solidifiedlava • This particular cave is in a place calledStaffa, an uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland• It contains high arched roofs like what you'd find in the vaults of Gringotts fromHarry Potter, but with this cave they'll let you explore if you so wish7 - Skaftafell Ice Cave • This one appeared in Iceland as a resultof glacial mill, where rain and melted water form streams in the cave's ice crevices, whichin turn forms long glacial walls like something you'd find in an aquarium• This alone isn't enough to form the caves though, no, it takes heavy, cold wind to blowa small hole through the centre which widens with time to create an incredibly hollow,fragile cave of watery glass - one that can collapse at any moment6 - Angkor • A 12th century temple in Cambodia, oneof many, and since they've been abandoned for so long trees have up and grown all overthe place • This one here is like from a scene ofIndiana Jones, and they're more common than you'd think5 - Black Forest • I swear this is the exact forest as seenin Final Fantasy 7 - a dark, sinister canopy of evergreens splayed out in a colourful forest• This is part of a vast expanse of hills, rivers and valleys stretching from the spatown of Baden-Baden towards the Swiss border, as well as from Lake Constance to Rhine4 - Antelope Canyon • You should already know about this oneif you live in the United States, but for everyone else, it's a common tourist attractionfeaturing smooth, orange-red walls from a canyon hit by flash flooding - this, in turn,eroded the sandstone and created these beautiful passageways• Even today, the rains and floods continue slowly forging more passages• Nobody is actually sure when this was discovered, but the local Navajos claim thishad been part of their cultural heritage for a long time3 - Waitomo Caves • If you're familiar with David Attenborough,you might've heard about the glowing worms atop these caves in New Zealand• They leave behind a glistening residue that sticks small insects to the forest ofworm goop, then, slowly but surely, the worms make their way across the walls to ingestthem • It's a cave of glistening death, but a*nice* one 2 - Puerto Vallarta• This one can be found on the beaches of the Marieta Islands, Mexico, ones formed asa result of volcanic activity and, in some cases, bomb testing before it was banned inthe last century • It features a unique marine ecosystemwith sea turtles, humpback whales and dolphins • Most tourists go snorkeling and scubadiving when they show up - completely alone under a dome of land1 - Richat Structure • Also known as the Eye of the Sahara - acircular feature in the Sahara desert of west-central Mauritania• It's been the subject of speculation about whether it's a meteor impact or otherwise- but the scientific conclusion is that sedimentary rock received various levels of erosion ofresistant layers of quartzite, explaining its rings and colour• Very fascination nonetheless