Elephant Rock, Heimaey: Iceland’s Basalt Elephant in the Westman Islands
Elephant Rock on the coast of Heimaey, Westman Islands. Photo: Julian Martin . On the coast of Heimaey, in Iceland’s Westman Islands, a sea ...
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Geology: The Stories Written in Landscapes
Rock layers, minerals and water help explain many of the landscapes that first catch our eye. These stories connect the visible details with their geological setting, without turning a striking photograph into a claim it cannot support.
Start with Elephant Rock, Iceland: The Real Formation on Heimaey and 12 Otherworldly Landscapes and What Makes Them Different.
29 Otherworldly Places on Earth That Look Like Another Planet
Rainbow-coloured hot springs, forests of stone pillars, pink lakes, burning craters and caves big enough to hold a city block: some places o...
10 Unusual Beaches: Glowing Water, Black Sand, Sea Glass and Tidefalls
Some beaches are memorable for their colour, some for their shape and some for the strange story behind their sand. These ten unusual beache...
Lava Entering the Ocean in Hawaii: Kawika Singson’s Close-Up Video
Molten rock pouring into the Pacific is one of the rawest sights on the planet. In February 2013 Kawika Singson uploaded close-up footage of...
Six Spectacular Caves: Waitomo Glowworms, Fingal's Cave, Naica and More
Living lights on a cave ceiling in New Zealand, basalt columns over the Atlantic in Scotland, blue glacier ice in Iceland, the largest cryst...
Baatara Gorge Waterfall, Lebanon: The Cave of the Three Bridges
Each spring, as snow melts on the high mountains of northern Lebanon, a stream near the village of Balaa in Tannourine plunges into a limest...
Ural Salt Mine Photographs by Mikhail Mishainik: Carnallite Colours
Orange, cream and pale green bands swirl around a tunnel, running across the walls and ceiling into the darkness. These are not paintings. ...
Eight Spectacular Caves and Canyons: Son Doong, Naica, Benagil, Waitomo
Some of the world’s most spectacular places are hidden underground or carved deep into rock: a cave big enough to hold a jungle, a chamber o...
11 Otherworldly Places on Earth: Socotra, Lake Kaindy, Darvaza and More
Umbrella-shaped trees on an island off Arabia, a forest standing in a mountain lake, a cave ceiling lit by living lights and a desert crater...
19 Real Places That Look Unreal: Stone Pillars, Pink Lakes and Ice Caves
Some landscapes look as if a designer drew them: forests of stone pillars, hills striped like a paint chart, lakes the colour of strawberry ...
Ten Stunning Volcanoes of the World: From Mauna Loa to Mælifell
From the gentle giant of Hawaiʻi to the perfect cone of Mayon and the mossy green slopes of Iceland’s Mælifell, volcanoes build some of the...
Surreal Landscapes on Earth: 16 Real Places That Look Unreal
Some places look as if they were painted, rendered or dreamed up, yet every one of these 16 surreal landscapes is real. A salt flat that tur...