Top 10 most amazing places on the earth
10. Uluru the Monolith
9. The Crack of Silfra
8. Fog-shrouded Peaks
7. The Reflecting Desert
6. The Crystal Caverns
5. The Forest of Knives
4. The Fairy Chimneys
3. Devils Tower
2. Subterranean Splendor
1. The Great Blue Hole
10. Uluru
One of the largest monolith in the world, Uluru is located in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia.
The sandstone formation stands 348 m (1,142 ft) high, rising 863 m (2,831 ft) above sea level with most of its bulk lying underground, and has a total circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi)
Known by its Colonial name of Ayers Rock, Uluru is sacred to the Anangu, the Aboriginal people of the area.
9. The Crack of Silfra
Located in the Thingvallavatn Lake in the Thingvellir National Park in Iceland, Silfra is part of the Atlantic rift, Where you can dive into the crack between two continental plates-North American and European plates.
With a visibality of more than 100 meters, this place is regarded as one of the best diving sites in the world.
Visitors describe the Silfra diving experience as floating weightlessly through space.
8. Peaks of Meteora
In the greek peninsula you will find a dandy little place called the Meteora Rock Formations.
The nuns and monks have been living in these peaks for centuries, making these breathtaking vistas with its peaks and caverns actual monasteries.
The monasteries remain active to this day, though some peaks remain rather isolated destinations.
7. Salar de Uyuni (The Reflecting Desert)
Located in the Potosí and Oruro departments in southwest Bolivia, Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat at 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 sq mi).
When the rains sweep down onto the Uyuni Salt Flats, the entire place becomes an immense reflecting pool.
The rain water is absorbed slowly by the salt, and acts like a mirror, reflecting everything in sight and it seems there is no horizon, which creates an optical illusion in the photographs.
6. Cave of the Crystals
Nearly 300 meters below the Naicha Silver mine of Mexico there lies a crystal cave which contains some of the largest natural crystals ever found.
The cave's largest crystal found to date is 12 m (39 ft) in length, 4 m (13 ft) in diameter and 55 tons in weight.
The cave is extremely hot with air temperatures reaching up to 58 °C (136 °F) with 90 to 99 percent humidity.
5. The Stone Forest of Madagascar
Madagascar, isolated from rest of the world, the island is home to an abundance of plants and animals found nowhere else on Earth.
Here lies the huge collection of razor sharp vertical rocks. The colossal 'Grand Tsingy' landscape in western Madagascar is the world's largest stone forest
This landscape is the result from the long-term dissolution of soluble limestone bedrock. Formerly a massive slab of rock, rainwater has whittled it down into multiple, individual towers of stone.
4. The Fairy Chimneys
The fairy chimneys of Cappadocia in central Turkey are some of the unearthy things you will find here.
Here, tall spires of stone dot the landscape like some manner of bizarre growth.
Over time, the erosive forces of wind and water wore away much of the underlying soft material, leaving only slender towers with caps of tuff (hardened volcanic ash).
3. Devils Tower
Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion or laccolith in the Black Hills near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River.
The Devils Tower is 1,267 feet (386 m) high and is believed to have formed more than 50 million years ago and remained buried beneath the ground up until roughly 2 million years ago.
Devils Tower was made famous in modern times by the 1977 movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," but for many moons before that, tribal people had been visiting it, and regarded the area as a sacred site.
2. Mammoth Cave
Mammoth Cave the largest known cave system in the world with more than 390 miles (628 kilometers) worth of caves worm through the rocky depths.
The Green and Nolin Rivers course more than 30 miles through Mammoth Cave National Park, offering hours of boating, canoeing, fishing, and floodplain camping.
The cave also has an ecosystem, containing more than 130 documented species.
1. The Great Blue Hole
The Great Blue Hole is a large submarine sinkhole off the coast of Belize.
The hole is circular in shape, over 300 m (984 ft) across and 124 m (407 ft) deep.
It is believe that an underlying cave system collapsed under increased pressure some 10,000 years ago due to rising sea levels.
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