Earth never stops surprising us. Every corner of
the planet offers some sort of natural peculiarity
with an explanation that makes us wish we'd
studied harder in junior high Earth science class.
Some of these sites are challenging to get to;
others are busy tourist destinations. They keep
natural scientists searching for answers and the
rest of us astounded by the secrets and
mysteries the world continues to reveal.



1. Blood Falls, Antarctica
Most people won't see Blood Falls in person, but
even in photographs, the sight is arresting: a
blood-red waterfall staining the snow-white face
of Taylor Glacier. Glaciologists and
microbiologists have sought to determine what
causes the mysterious red flow. They've
concluded that the source is a subterranean lake
rich in the iron that gives the water its red hue.
Stranger still, recent research has revealed
microorganisms living 1,300 feet beneath the ice,
sustained by the iron and sulfur in the water.


2. Magnetic Hill, Moncton, New Brunswick
What could possibly cause an automobile to roll
backward uphill without power? A magnetic force
from within the Earth? Something even more
fantastic? Since the 1930s, when the
phenomenon of Magnetic Hill was discovered
(and almost immediately promoted as a tourist
attraction), people have been trying to figure out
its riddle.


3. Surtsey, Iceland
When people try to convince you there's nothing
new under the sun, direct them to the Icelandic
island of Surtsey . Before 1963, it didn't exist.
Then, an underwater volcano in the Westman
Islands (Vestmannaeyjar) erupted, and when the
activity settled down in 1967, what remained was
an island where no island had been before.


4. Moeraki Boulders, New Zealand
Large spherical boulders -- some measuring 12
feet in circumference -- are scattered on
Koekohe Beach on the east coast of New
Zealand's South Island. They formed millions of
years ago on the ancient sea floor, collecting and
hardening sediment and minerals around a core
such as a fossil or a shell similar to the way
oysters form pearls.
They're not the world's only examples of what
geologists call septarian concretions. You can
also visit the Koutu Boulders near Hokianga
Harbour on the northwestern coast of New
Zealand's North Island, for example. Yet the
Moeraki Boulders are some of the world's
largest. The particulars of their origin and what
caused the distinctive cracks inside them are
still being studied.


5. Longyearbyen, Norway
From April 20 to August 23, the sun never sets
over Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago that lies
north of Greenland in the Arctic Sea. The
phenomenon plays havoc with everyone's body
clocks. Is it noon? Is it midnight? After a day or
two, it's hard to tell.


6. Pamukkale, Turkey
What appears to be a Doctor Zhivago-style snowy
landscape in southwestern Turkey is actually the
result of calcium carbonate deposits from 17
natural hot springs accumulating over thousands
of years. Beginning in the late second century
B.C., this area near present-day Denizli was a
destination for those who sought the therapeutic
benefits of the mineral-rich water whose
temperature reaches upward of 100 degrees
Fahrenheit.
Today, you can see remnants of the baths at the
ancient holy city of Hierapolis, but it's the
stunning terraces, cliffs and petrified white
waterfalls of Pamukkale -- Turkish for "Cotton
Palace" -- that give it remarkable natural beauty.


7. Racetrack Playa, Death Valley, California
How ordinary stones manage to "sail" over the
surface of Racetrack Playa in Death Valley
National Park is a mystery people have tried to
solve since 1915, when a prospector and his wife
noticed tracks that seemed to indicate that the
stones had somehow traveled across the dry
earth. Short of cosmic intervention, the stones
required terrestrial forces to move them.
But what forces? The current prevailing theory
about the "sailing stones" of Racetrack Playa,
presented by a team of physicists in 2011,
involves ice that forms around the stones,
causing them to move and to leave a trail in their
wake. Many visitors still hope for a more
mystical explanation.


8. Eternal Flame Falls, Orchard Park, New York..
Behind the cascade of a small waterfall in the
Shale Creek Preserve section of Chestnut Ridge
Park in suburban Buffalo, New York, you might
see what appears to be an optical illusion: a
flickering golden flame. Actually, you'll smell it
before you see it, and amazingly, it's real, fueled
by what geologists call a macroseep of natural
gas from the Earth below.
A geological fault in the shale allows about 1
kilogram of methane gas per day to escape to
the surface, where, at some point, possibly the
early 20th century, a visitor had the idea to set it
alight. The water occasionally extinguishes the
flame, but there's always another hiker with a
lighter to reignite it.


9. Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park claims the highest
concentration of geysers of any place on Earth.
Geysers are hot springs with plumbing
challenges that result in eruptions. More than
300 can be found throughout the park, and none
is more famous than Old Faithful. In fact, Old
Faithful is the reason Yellowstone was
designated a National Park -- the first in the
United States -- in 1872.
Its name comes from the perceived regularity of
its eruptions, which occur every 55 to 120
minutes and last for two to five minutes. The
spectacular eruptions remain a source of
fascination for the more than 3.5 million people
who visit Yellowstone each year. The fact that
the eruptions aren't quite as regular as they
might seem -- and that the mean eruption
interval seems to be lengthening -- keeps
geologists fascinated, too.


10. Relampago del Catatumbo, Ologa, Venezuela
Thanks to its humidity, its elevation and the
clash of winds from the mountains and the sea,
the southwestern corner of Lake Maracaibo in
Venezuela has the world's highest frequency of
lightning activity (250 flashes per square
kilometer per year).
More than 200 nights per year, with peaks in May
and October, lightning flashes fill the sky --
sometimes 25 or more flashes per minute. To
put that in perspective: The National Weather
Service classifies anything over 12 strikes per
minute as "excessive." Named for the Catatumbo
River, which flows from Colombia in to Lake
Maracaibo, the Relampago de Catatumbo, or
Catatumbo Lighting, has become a highlight for
travelers who spend their nights wide awake and
wide-eyed watching the spectacle.

*Spreads tent*
Op does not know what exactly is a mystery
I've seen all those places way back while i was in college

mysterious indeed, like a President that wears pampers..

I av bn to numbers 2 and 4

.. *sips zobo *..

.op come to naija nd c sumtin strange too

Nature is beautiful

Ok

hefty4real:
Spreads tent

Joining you...
Brings 4 cooler of Orijin and Pizza...
And lotta books...

FowlYansh:
,

which kin username be dis....y lie about ur gender?

Op you forgot to add Nigeria too. What can make 20 Billion dollars to disappear without trace?. Only in Nigeria.

Freemanan:

Joining you...
Brings 4 cooler of Orijin and Pizza...
And lotta books...

U don dey high tei tei, no be today

kossyablaze:
which kin username be dis....y lie about ur gender?

What is exactly wrong with my username?

Cc; Lalasticlala Ishilove Seun.

Owu safi

these places don't define "mysterious"...

FowlYansh:

What is exactly wrong with my username?

FOWLYANSH!!!!!!

hefty4real:


U don dey high tei tei, no be today

You can't visit the above with a normal mind... And that your land needs pimping and housewarming nau

calculator123:
FOWLYANSH!!!!!!

What is wrong with it?

TheYoungRebel:
Where's Borno state?

Where is your brain?

where z sambisa forest

BRB

Nice

FowlYansh:

What is wrong with it?

how does it sound.

11: Sambisia forest in Nigeria, a place where over 1000 terrorist n their wives live without being discovered. Cc: lalasticlala, ishlove n co.

calculator123:
how does it sound.

Normal
R u ok?

FowlYansh:




Normal R u ok?

next time stop faking identity.ok

TheYoungRebel:

Its on a competitive assignment to determine if your stupidity is going to result into lunancy so that we'd better lock you up in an asylum before things get out of hand o ye deranged dimwit.

Clap for yourself... You Just impressed Prof. Theodore Bagwell

Freemanan:
Clap for yourself... You Just impressed Prof. Theodore Bagwell

Get the fvck off my mentions, you cretinous cunting fvckhead. Stúpid cúnt.

TheYoungRebel:

Get the fvck off my mentions, you cretinous cunting fvckhead.
Stúpid cúnt.