Rock Valley in Bolivia’s Potosí Department is a striking landscape filled with towering rock formations sculpted by wind and erosion over centuries. Under dramatic skies and vast open plains, this ...

Nature doesn’t follow blueprints, and sometimes the result is strange enough to stop you in your tracks. Around the world, erosion, lava, and sediment have shaped landscapes that feel less like ...

Many Joshua Tree National Park visitors have discovered desert rocks that resemble everything from broken hearts to land and sea animals. Photo from National Park Service Visitors find more than just ...

Explore 25 weird geological formations that look impossible! Discover Earth's most bizarre natural wonders, from towering ...

Scientists are excited over a recent discovery of "black mesas" in the Sahara desert that appear to be hundreds of millions of years old. The are was discovered in the southern Mauritania region of ...

The desert-like environment of Canon City can offer some quality early spring hiking, and Oil Well Flats is only about an hour away from Colorado Springs. Winter weather is possible in March, so ...

Earth has a way of surprising us—not just with beauty, but with landscapes so strange they seem to defy logic. Across ...

Petroglyphs on sandstone at a national park in Chad bear witness to wildlife that once roamed the area before the continent’s water largely receded 6,000 years ago. Could it return? The Ennedi Natural ...