Top 10 Most Amazing and Unusual Places on Earth

Top 10 Most Amazing and Unusual Places on Earth

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Top 10 Most Amazing and Unusual Places on Earth
Where words fail, pictures do the trick. Today’s video showcases the baffling beauty and sublime grace of some of the strangest places on earth! If you’re a self-proclaimed adventurer, anxious for a travel experience beyond any other, the following destinations should make the top of your to-do list. It’s true; things are about to get weird if you opt to venture beyond the norm to the following weird and wonderful travel destinations. And before you rub your eyes and gape in wonder; trust us, these locations really exist!! Here are our picks for the top 10 MOST AMAZING and UNUSUAL places on earth!
10. Pamukkale, Turkey


Pamukkale-Hierapolis is a remarkable UNESCO World Heritage Site situated on the western rim of the vast Anatolian plateau in Turkey. The surreal, brilliant white travertine terraces and warm, limpid pools of Pamukkale hang, like the petrified cascade of a mighty waterfall, from the rim of a steep valley side in Turkey’s picturesque southwest. Truly spectacular in its own right, the geological phenomenon that is Pamukkale, literally "Cotton Castle" in Turkish, is also the site of the remarkably well-preserved ruins of the Greek-Roman city of Hierapolis. With such a unique combination of natural and man-made wonders, it’s little wonder that Pamukkale-Hierapolis has been made a Unesco World Heritage site. With over two million visitors annually, it is also Turkey’s single most visited attraction.

There are dramatic travertine terraces dotted all around the globe, but nowhere else in the world can visitors enjoy exploring both picturesque travertine formations, built up over the millennia from limestone deposited by the abundant hot springs, and the colonnaded streets, temples, bath-houses, necropolis, and theatre of the remains of an idyllically located Greek-Roman spa city, Hierapolis. Water cascades from natural springs and down the white travertine terraces and forms stunning thermal pools perfect for a quick dip as the Romans once did.

Since the site is flooded with tourists, the best way to enjoy an uncrowded visit is to spend the night in Pamukkale village then explore the formations and ancient site the following morning.
9. The Wave, Arizona

Of all the mystical cures awaiting the believers in the Arizona desert, the Wave, a colorful, wavelike, Navajo sandstone rock formation, will hold you in the most awe. This pinnacle stands proud of its oddness between the borders of Arizona and Utah, and is thought to hail from the Jurassic era during which time prevailing winds pushed the sandy desert dunes across the sandstone, etching it, while water runoff deposited chemicals such as manganese and iron. The resulting bands of colour are referred to as the Liesegang rings, named after a German chemist. Swirled bands of colour run through the sandstone, ranging from red, pink, orange, yellow, white and green. It’s a dreamlike world of swirling colors and psychedelic patterns!!

The peculiar and unique fluctuating stratum was created by slow wind and rain erosion.
The Wave was virtually unknown until the 1990’s when it was widely advertised in German travel brochures, and featured in the 1996 movie Faszination Natur.

In an effort to preserve the natural beauty and integrity of this natural site, there is no signage for hikers so you have to find your way in and out of this site, which sounds like a reasonable challenge! Also, only 20 visitors are permitted to access the Wave each day as permits are issued online through a lottery system. Who’s up for it?
8. Crooked Forest, Poland
Came across any oddly-shaped pine trees outside Nowe Czarnowo near the town of Gryfino, West Pomerania? No? Well, welcome to the most bizarre place on Earth! There’s a curious little forest where trees grow at a 90-degree angle at their base, and no one knows why. This mystery is doubly intriguing because the Crooked Forest, as it’s known, is surrounded by a non-crooked forest of trees that grow straight up in the normal way.

The Crooked Forest trees were planted in the 1930s and experienced their inverted arc some seven to 10 years later. Intriguing theories posit that the trees are the result of extraterrestrial influences or a gravitational pull that works like no other on Earth.

The more boring and likely answer is that humans did this, perhaps hoping to harvest the trees for shipbuilding. The reason no one knows for sure is that the age of the trees and their possible human manipulation coincide directly with the invasion of Poland.