12 REAL AMAZING PLACES ON EARTH THAT SEEM SCIENTIFICALLY IMPOSSIBLE

12 REAL AMAZING PLACES ON EARTH THAT SEEM SCIENTIFICALLY IMPOSSIBLE

12 real amazing places on earth that seem scientifically impossible

Thanks to cutting edge computer graphics, television and movie producers can now make stunning landscapes that appeared completely real.

The latest science fiction movies create whole worlds that looked so convincing that you could reach out and touch them.

All the places you're going to see in today's story on this historytomystery site aren't the work of Hollywood producers though they're incredible, real places on planet Earth, and you can go and visit them if you like.

 

The Grand Prismatic Spring in Wyoming USA is a fine place to start. The unique natural formation looks like giant sunspots stretched out across the land with a pool of perfectly clear blue water at a tart.

The spring is in Yellowstone National Park, which sits on top of a huge super volcano that will one day explode and take half of North America with it.

Until then, the local conditions it creates serve up geological wonders like this one. If you want to watch the full video then I will share a video link.  

The 250 foot by 380 foot but spring is the 3rd largest in the world and is especially well known for its bold and striking colors.

The Perfect Blue turns to green thanks to the algae that have built up on its inner circle, which is surrounded by a golden rim, darkening to red on its outer edges. The boiling spring discharges 560 gallons of water every minute.

 

The picturesque hills of Zheng Yi Danzi and the national Geopark in China look like they must have been sketched by the hand of a talented artist, but they're a naturally occurring rock formation.

Some of the tourists who come to marvel at the hills think they look like a rolling sea of fire, but the locals prefer to think of them by their less threatening nickname of the rainbow mountains.

National Geographic considers them to be one of the top 10 geological wonders in the world.

The rocks look like this because different kinds of stones have been piling up against each other here for billions of years. And then weathered by the winds and water erosion.

What you see is a combination of red sandstone, polite, and sci-fi, which is gradually formed into stripes taking the appearance of ribbons.

On the outer edge though the colors become grey and yellow almost like crystal at dawn and at sunset. It looks like the land has caught fire.

 

What could look more alien than a stone forest? This collection of tall thin needles isn't on the surface. Of a distant world though. It's the grand singing in Madagascar. The island nation has its own distinct culture, and that goes from the land and the animals as well as the people.

These jagged rock formations are incredible to look at, but don't get too close to them. The word singing means a place where you cannot walk.

The rock is sharp, pointy, and uneven. If you tried to walk through these stone trees, you'd always be one small slip away from disaster.

The largest of the needles is 2600 feet high and in the spaces between them. You'll find all manner of exotic flora and fauna, including wild lemurs.

Scientists believed the singing began to form 200 million years ago with the spiny peaks carved by millennia of monsoons.

We all think we know what a flat coastline should look like. The land ends on a beach and then the sea begins right?

Well, apparently that's not always the case. After heavy flooding in Kerala, India during 2018 the natural order of things was disrupted by huge tides.

A sand bed formed stretching half a mile across the sea and splitting the tide into this isn't a beach that's drowned.

It's a completely new formation of sand, which is attracting tourists in big numbers.

Some brave visitors have taken to walking all the way along the thin strip of sand, which allows them to feel almost as if they were walking on water.

We don't recommend trying it yourself though. Local government officials and police have warned tourists that the sand bed isn't safe or stable and could move again in the event of high tides.

It also sits very low in the water, meaning that even a small change in the tide could leave people stranded out in the water with no way of walking back to the shore.

It's believed that this phenomenon occurred once before in 1986 and lasted for years before the sand was eventually washed back to the shore.

Have you ever seen something beautiful and said to yourself that it looks good enough to eat that temptation to eat what's in front of your eyes may never be stronger than it must be for those who pay a visit to the Chocolate Hills of Ball Hall island in the Philippines.

They're such an incredible sight to behold that many people think they should be classed as one of the 7 new wonders of the world.

The huge soft mounds looked like giant haystacks made of chocolate ranging from 150 to 400 feet in height.

You have to visit toward the end of the dry season to see them in their full glory. During damp weather.

They're covered with grass. But when things get drier, they take on their famous chocolate brown tone local legend says that the hills were formed by the tears of a giant named Rose as he mourned the death of his lover.

In reality, they're likely to be the result of coral deposits rising through the land because of rainwater and soil erosion gradually being turned into their current shape by centuries of wind and weather.

Trees come in many different shapes and sizes, but you won't find them in the perfect shape of a letter J anywhere but in the crooked forest in Poland.

There are more than 400 trees here, all of which have the exact same mysterious bending curve from their roots.

They've grown parallel to the ground before changing direction and growing upwards towards the sky.

More interestingly evolved nobody knows why they look like this. Some theories speculate that they were buried under heavy snow when they were young and were only able to resume their normal growth after the snow had thought away.

Others believed that the pull of gravity works differently on this part of the land and the trees had to fight to escape it.

Perhaps the most likely explanation is that they were deliberately forced into the shape by foresters, who intended to make unique furniture from the unusual shapes before being forced to abandon their efforts when the Second World War broke out shortly after they were planted.80 years later, they're still standing tall and keeping their secrets.

 

The rich add structure and Watain Mauritania has the appearance of a whirlpool but there's no water to be found here.

The intricate and beautiful pattern is completely made out of rock. Sitting in the middle of the Sahara Desert.

This rocky pattern of circles is over 30 miles wide, so big that it can be seen in space. Astronauts nicknamed it the bullseye and used it as a landmark to get their bearings when looking down from above.

But natives of the continent prefer to call it the eye of Africa. We once believed that this was an impact crater, but over time, scientists came to accept that it was too flat to have been caused by anything falling from above.

Instead, we're now working on the theory that this was once a geological dome, which has been battered by centuries of harsh desert weather.

The wind gradually picked the layers away from the dome leaving this strange and almost perfectly flat pattern for several months of every year was gateleg Park in Melbourne, Australia performs an awesome party trick.

It turns bright pink, and the lake is artificial, but the pink water wasn't part of the design, nor is it the result of synthetic dye.

The purpose of building it was to replace salt marsh deposits and so there's a great deal of salt marsh in and below the water.

When temperatures increase the salt marsh combines with direct sunlight and a large algae population to create a striking optical effect.

Once it's gotten pink, it stays that way until the summer ends and temperatures begin to drop.

Although visitors are welcome to come and take pictures, it's not a great idea to try getting in for a swim.

The very high salt level of the water can cause irritation on contact with the skin. It doesn't do any harm to the animal living in or around it. But humans are a little more sensitive.

Timing is everything if you want to see a river of fire running down a mountain.

It happens for a matter of minutes on a limited number of days each year at horsetail fall, which is in Yosemite National Park, California.

Two mighty streams of water flow from the El Capitan mountain and plunge almost 1600 feet before crashing onto rocks sending a mist of spray into the air.

At the end of every February, as the sun begins to set, the light of the fading Sun will reflect off the rocks and catch the falling water perfectly, giving the appearance of a giant tang of flame.

The effect is as if a fire was blazing somewhere inside the mountain. It lasts for only a few moments and then it's gone.

So make sure you have your camera ready a century ago forest rangers here used to create a real fire fall by pushing burning coal down the side of the mountain but stopped when they realized they were causing a fairly major fire hazard. Fortunately, nature has taken over the job.

Perhaps nowhere on Earth bears the scars of the awesome power of nature more than Antelope Canyon in Arizona.

But what beautiful scars they are. The rocks here are so finely whipped and curved that they almost look like a moose or an ice cream.

Nothing has been done by humans to give the canyons this appearance which looks to all the world like a Hollywood special effect.

This was all carved out by the wind, water, and the passing of the years. The Navajo know this location as a special in a spiritual place, giving it a name in their native tongue, which aims at the place where water runs through the rocks.

A tiny corridor leads travelers through the canyon, where they will be surrounded by polished sandstone that towers 120 feet above them.

Here's a constant flood risk in this area, which is why it's recommended to go with a qualified tour guide.

This will be a bad place to get trapped. When you first set your eyes on Mexico's El Valle agua, you might believe you're seeing a waterfall more powerful and impressive than the famous Niagara Falls.

You're not no matter what your eyes are telling you. Nothing on the side of this mountain is moving there isn't even any water on the side of this mountain.

There are however two mineral rich water deposits on the very top. These pools are fed by natural springs full of magnesium and calcium carbonate.

As the water flows and drips toward the edge of the mountain, it seeps through cracks in the rock and deposits as mineral content right onto the heart of the rock.

Over millions of years, these mineral deposits have created long irregular patterns, which look remarkably like flowing water.

The name survey el agua translates into English as the water boils, which is a reference to the fact that the water bubbles are from the springs on the top.

The Zappa tech people who were native to this land over 2000 years ago diverted the springs to feed their plants and crops, accidentally creating this so, called frozen waterfall in the process.

Down Under in New Zealand. If you're not familiar with the story of Split Apple Rock, then you'd likely assume that it's a strange modern art sculpture.

It looks like a perfect representation of an apple cleaved in half.

Unless there were sculptors around 120 million years ago though we are once again looking at a completely natural creation.

The split owl is around 160 feet off the shoreline of K territory and is completely composed of granite.

The myths and legends of the local Maori say that two warring Gods fought over the rock splitting it in half in the process.

Thinking more scientifically it's likely that a tiny crevice somewhere within the rock slowly filled with water and then froze during the Ice Age.

As the water expanded it cracked the rock and neatly split it leaving us with a beautiful apple.

 

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