The world is filled with a fascinating history and architectural marvels which offer lots of destinations to choose for a vacation or an adventure with scenic views, food scenes and much more. From Machu Picchu in Peru to exotic beach locations and blue coastal reefs in New Zealand, the world has some of the best places which offer memorable experiences. But while there are many weird places in the world which some mysterious going on with logical explanations but some are unsolved to date. Here are the top 18 weird places in the world that will leave you in shock or surprise you in a nutshell filled with emotions.
1.Lake Natron
Lake Natron in Tanzania Africa is a deadly lake where animals die and turn into statues. The water in the lake has too high alkaline water of pH 10.5 which makes it so acidic that it burns the skin and eyes of the animals to calcify and preserve as they dry. The alkalinity in the water comes from the sodium carbonate and other minerals that flow from nearby hills. The reason why it has the colour of ed in the lake is due to the high acidic body of the water. Flamingos can survive in this lake due to its particularly tough skin and scales which prevent the legs from burning down so that they can drink the water at the near-boiling point to collect freshwater from geysers at the lake's edge. They use glands in their head that removes the salt draining them out from their nasal cavity. You can fly to Tanzania and book a guided tour of the Rift valley to visit this place.
2.Eternal Flame Falls – Nature’s Unique falls
Even though there are hundreds of eternal natural flames worldwide but located in the shale Creek basin is a section of Chestnut Ridge Park in the western Newyork is one of a kind Eternal Flame Falls remains a scientific mystery with a breathtaking small but fierce flame under massive torrents of water. At the base of the waterfalls, it emits natural gas which can be lit to produce Flame. Astonishingly the love is visible all round the year which brightens red in the Waterfall. If you want to visit this place, fly to New York York and take a bus or train to Orchard park where the fall is located.
3 . Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle located between Florida's southern tip Bermuda and San Juan in Puerto Rico is the infamous section where dozens of ships and aeroplanes have disappeared since 1975. Most of the mysterious disappearances occur more frequently at the triangle than any other part of the world. Scientists have researched this area, but theories about the disappearance are due to the supernatural activity or magnetic compass variation have been found. It is regarded as one of the top weird places in the world.
4.Spotted Lake
It is located northwest of Osoyoos in the eastern Similkameen Valley of British Columbia Canada just like any other water lakes in winter. But during the summer the water of the lake evaporates leaving hundreds of huge briny pools with polka-dotted landscapes of yellow, green and blue spots. The lake has been revered long by native Okanagan people, and the visitors are asked not to trespass on the tribal land. The colourful pool results from the high concentration of minerals and salts that have run from the surrounding hills. The colour variation depends upon the concentration of minerals in the pool.
5.Lake Hillier
Lake Hillier is located off western Australia was discovered in 1802 as a chain of islands called Recherche Archipelago. The lake is not notable for its high salt content, and it's a shade of pink called Pepto-Bismol. The pink water is not toxic due to its extreme salinity, just like the dead sea. It is combined with es such as pink bacteria and Dunaliella Salina, bacteria.
6. The Nazca Lines
The Nazca Lines in Peru are the mysterious prehistoric remains in South America with dusty landscapes etched by animal figures and geometric shapes depicting monkeys and spiders viable from the air or a metal viewing tower beside the highway. Each body is executed with a continuous line of unexplained shapes with 200m length. This site has been made a UNESCO world heritage site. The areas are best explored from the scenic flights above.
7.Great Blue Hole
The Great blue hole is the world's most enormous sinkhole that lies off the coast of Belize which measures off 984ft 300meters across with 125metres 410ft deep is where Scuba divers and snorkelers are cruising for decades. Still, very few have dared to go deep inside the underwater and explore deep inside the bottom. Some of the crew found out the reef sharks, turtles, and giant corals. Still, life seems to vanish after they push to the 90 meters as the crazy thing was the presence of hydrogen sulphide layer spanning the width of the entire hole where they were no oxygen and no life as you lose it to the darkness in the anoxic black hole is one of the weirdest places in the world, deep down some of the trained Explorer of Scuba diver's found out the conchs and conch shells and hermit crabs that had suffocated and fallen into the hole. Towards the bottom of the 120meters deep, the team found out the small stalactites that surprised them as a clue to the hole's ancient past. Scientists had predicted that the cave was formed during the last ice age when the sea began to rise, and the cave collapsed about 14,000 years ago. Has claimed the lives of many divers in the past and is touted to be the deadliest spots in the world by experts.
8.Pamukkale
Pamukkale which translates to Cotton Castle is a calcite filled waters is a tiny town in the southwest Turkey is a world heritage site UNESCO. It comprises natural mineral basins formed against the bright calcium bicarbonate deposits which result in unreal landscapes. It is one of the 17 most exotic water terraces in the world. For more than a hundred decades, people have journeyed through this town to have a bath in the hot springs which range from 35 degrees to 100 degrees temperature. Water cascades from springs down the white travertine terraces form the stunning thermal pool which genuinely takes your breath away.
9.Mendenhall Ice Caves
Mendenhall Ice Caves are located in Alaska and are formed by a body of ice within the glacier as the water flows through it and creates a passageway which can range from size small to squeeze through the tunnels to huge caverns. These dynamic glaciers have been receding at an alarming rate over the years due to global warming. Geologists have feared that these caves might get affected due to it and they are doing everything to save these ice caves from not getting extinct.
10.Badab-e-Sort
Badab-e-Surt is located in the Mazandaran province in northern Iran is off the beaten track and is one of the only six natural attractions similar in the world. This Travertine is formed, from the flowing water's calcium deposits are a type of limestone. These rocks come from the two hot springs which settle down the minerals, and the water gets clearer and more transparent reflects the pond of the sky. The colour of the sky changes during the sunset and sunrise to the body's colour to change, which forms dreamy exotic landscapes. In one of the springs, the unusual red colour of the terraces is due to the rich content of iron. The best times to visit are during the seasons in April and May where the weather is perfect.
11.Crooked Forest
South of Szczecin city in Poland's extremely haunch with a West border in Germany is the town of Gryfino's brilliantly bonkers Crooked Forest, which is the weirdest place in the world that has been visited by only a few because of its wonky appearance and many theories including snowstorm or gravitational pull morphed into the shape is a mystery in itself. Till now no one has proven the strange canopies which are intriguing is garnering the attention of travellers all around the world.
12.Blood falls
Antarctica is the world's most mysterious and coldest continent and is home to blood-red waterfalls that seep into ice. The red colour was due to algae, but the truth is much more enjoyable. When a saltwater pool was trapped inside Taylor Glacier much around two Million years, it has been a mystery for a long time. Still, much to our surprise geologists have found out that the occurrence is due to high iron content and salinity which caused the rust-red colour to eventually ooze out of a fissure in the ice, making it look like blood is flowing through the water.
13.Yonaguni Monument
This underwater Monument in Japan is five thousand years old, which is a mystery as scientists have still not found out whether it's human-made or natural or if it could be alien made theorists say. This particular location is a mystery in the cultural country.
14.Uluru
Uluru is a magnificent pillar in the middle of the Australian outback that has fascinated people for centuries and is a sacred spot for Anangu people. This sandstone rock is a gargantuan block which is way high above the flatlands that encompasses it is truly a breathtaking view which attracts a lot of hikers and history lovers who come here for the petroglyphs which mark the caves nearby. Uluru is also called Ayers Rock. This site or figure is the focal point for the old traditions of the Australian Aborigines. The red surface is due to the oxidation while the rock Beneath is grey.
15.Hoia-Baciu Forest
Hoia-Baciu Forest in Romania dials up to its weirdness as the trees are clung with the mist, and you can pretty much feel eerie in the forest. Legends and many hikers have predicted that the place has encountered aliens activity or people have vanished in the dense forest. This forest has been known as the Bermuda Triangle of Romania. The giant mysterious forest in the world. As the forest here does not have trees grown over the centuries. The whole forest feels like a frozen place.
16.Mapimi Silent Zone
Mapimi Silent Zone is located four kilometres from San Ignacio in Mexico. This area is known as Zona del Silencio is a silent zone which is compared to The Bermuda Triangle as both are located at the parallel of 26 and 28 and has similar legends where there is no radio transmission in this silent zone. Many theories have found out that the strangeness is due to the local magnetic fields, aliens, or gravitational theory which is much more enjoyable.
17.Al Naslaa Rock Formation
Al Naslaa Rock Formation is one of the natural occurrences which can bewilder a traveller. One of the natural phenomena with a uniform slit between the flat faces of the two standing stones located in Saudi Arabia is one of the natural petroglyphs in that area. The shape of this phenomena is still a mystery which makes it the weirdest place to visit in the world.
18.Fingal’s Cave
Fingal’s Cave is rare caves which are symmetrical square structures situated in the uninhabited islands of Staffa in Scotland. The entrance if this cave is filled with seawater gives it the natural bounty look filled with ice caps.
These are the top 18 weird places globally, and there are many more places in the world to visit and explore the meaning of different experiences
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