17 Most Unreal Rock Formations

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Tourist from all over the world travel to these amazing destinations to see the strange but beautiful rock formations nature has made.

#10 Salt Piles at Salar de Uyuni
Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat, is one of the most distinct natural landmarks in the world. The immense plains of salt are viewable from space and are a huge attraction for tourists and photographers. After rainfall, the plains turn into an enormous reflective mirror that creates a surreal landscape. The piles of salt ready for harvest only add to the uncanny imagery.

# 9 Giant’s Causeway
The Giant’s Causeway is a huge oceanside area in Northern Ireland comprised of giant interlocking columns of basalt rock. Most of the columns are hexagonal in shape and perfectly fit together creating a surreal almost game-like environment. Scientifically speaking the columns were created by an ancient volcanic explosion, but it gains its name from the popular legend that the cliffs were built as a causeway by a giant in ancient times.

# 8 Balance Rock
In the Garden of Gods in Colorado Springs there are a plethora of beautiful red rock formations, but possibly the most iconic of these rocks is Balance Rock - a huge boulder that seems like it could fall over at any moment. It is destined to fall over eventually when erosion or another damage dislodges it from its gripping points. Go and see Balance Rock before it falls over and becomes just a normal rock.

# 7 Balancing Rock, Canada
There is another precarious rock, but this seems to be even more impossible. The Balancing Rock in Nova Scotia is believed to be standing for thousands of years. It’s about 30 feet tall and seems to be just standing straight up out of pure will.

# 6 Fly Geyser
This erupting rock is Fly Geyser, an accidental man-made geothermal geyser in Washoe County. The fountain was created in 1964 when people were exploring sources of geothermal energy and accidentally drilled into a well. The well was never capped properly and has now become a geyser that shoots water into the air, creating the ever growing rock formation around it. It looks like a weird alien structure because of thermophilic algae that thrive in the high temperatures Fly Geyser generates.

# 5 Split Apple Rock
Tokangawhā, aka Split Apple Rock, is a geological rock formation off the coast of South Island of New Zealand. It is a structure made of granite and looks almost like it was deliberately cut in half. This cleft was natural, though, with no help from any humans. What exactly could have cut this boulder in half is a mystery although theories include water creeping into the rock, freezing, and expanding to break the rock. It’s a popular spot for tourists to take the exact same photo every year.

# 4 Moeraki Boulders
The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders that are spread along Koekohe Beach on the Otago coast of New Zealand. Local Maori legends explain the boulders as the remains of eel baskets from the large sailing canoe that brought Maori people to the island hundreds of years ago. These stones are usually hollow but sometimes they are filled with calcite and quartz, which makes it look very interesting when they are broken open or exposed.

# 3 Folding Rocks at Agia Pavlos
These interesting looking rocks are known commonly as the Folding Rocks. They are sedimentary limestone layers were once layered horizontally at the bottom of the sea, but tectonic plates pushed them together and forced them upwards.

# 2 Torghatten
Torghatten is a granite mountain on Torget island in Norway. As far as mountains go it looks pretty uncharacteristic and lumpy except for the giant gaping hole right in the middle of it. According to legend, the mountain hole was made by a troll who was chasing a beautiful girl. Knowing he could never catch the girl he shot an arrow at her, but the Troll King threw his hat to save her and that hat turned into the mountain. Sounds pretty legit to me.

# 1 Abandoned Russian Salt Mine
This abandoned Russian Salt Mine looks more like a scene from a trippy art house movie. The naturally occurring minerals in the abandoned mine create psychedelic patterns and structures which create unique swirls. While the naturally occurring art in these walls are beautiful, exploring the mines are not without danger. There are hazards of falling, landslides, and low visibility, but it might be worth facing to see this one of a kind place.
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I’m from New Zealand and recognised split apple rock straight away, it’s down the Abel Tasman off Kaiteri where our family camp every year. You can kayak around it or even swim to it, pretty amazing thing 😊

lil_salt
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Here is also a quick fact about Salar De Uyuni Salt Flats... The Salt flats are so FLAT, that Nasa uses it to calibrate their satellites. It is one of the Flattest spots on earth. :) just figured I would tell everyone.. I thought that was pretty cool :D

TinfoilHatWearer
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I was looking at the moreaki boulder and thought, “Those aren’t boulders those are defiantly eggs of some giant monster”

jonahdriver
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Absolutely amazing! Thanks so much, this earth is so full of wonder.

wanttruth
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Absolutely superb video on the most amazing geologic formations. Very worthwhile video. And many thanks for the written description, above.

robertschlesinger
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*So is no one gonna talk about how tanjiro cuts that rock at **5:26*

davinanasylz
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Nice videos. Tks for beautiful videos.

shailajanayak
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Australia has at least a dozen amazing rock formations itself; The Devils Marbles (NT), Wave Rock (WA), Tessellated Rocks (Tas), Ulura (NT) and The Pinnalces (WA), to name just a few.

okidoke
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I live in New Zealand and have been to split apple rock many times it looks amazing

mynameisk
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Very informative and lovely video.... u collect all this information from all over the world. This types of strange rock formations also available in India. I would this video more... If yu add at least one strange rock formation. From india

vikrampatel
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All good stuff, but I was for an honorable mention. The time when the rock, chris rock, and kid rock all got together..truly intense

silva
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Beautiful thiên nhiên bạn tặng cho con người tuyệt vời very good

thivantran
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Quick addition to the giant's causeway thing - there is another location in Scotland which also features these distinct columns, and as far as I know it was supposedly the other end of the causeway (in the legend)

xaiano
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Dec 2019: "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being."  Revelation 4:11 Note: In the book of Romans, God explains that men who defy Him will be without excuse. (Romans 1:20)

katrinamcintyre
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Not rock .just pieces of ancient Fossilized trees 🌳

chantueara
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Never in my wildest of dreams, could i honestly say, someone would get 4million hits for views on rocks..
Sweet :)

armondtanz
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5:25 when chuck norris plays rock paper scissors, he chooses scissors

KaiShin
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0:58 "it also totally looks like a butt" i was not expecting that hahahah i am chuckling thank u

LeifCoffield
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Amazing formations which are beautiful. I grateful, happy to say, it is not possible to visit all places. Thanks for sending all.

nirmalsaha
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7:15 The texture packs are glichy with this mod.

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