Thread of the Most Mysterious Places on Earth🧵
1. Atacama Desert, Chile 🇨🇱
2. Do these around 900 years old Sculptures at Patilana Jain Temples, Gujarat, India depict modern communication devices?
3. Paracas Candelabra: A massive ancient geoglyph on the Paracas Peninsula in Pisco Bay, Peru 🇵🇪
4. The Bermuda Triangle
An area between Bermuda, Florida, and Puerto Rico where numerous ships and aircraft have mysteriously disappeared.
5. The deepest and the largest natural well on earth called Xiaozai Tiankang
6. Nazca Lines, Peru 🇵🇪
The Nazca Lines in Peru are massive geoglyphs etched into the desert, their purpose and creators shrouded in mystery and intrigue.
7. The Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt 🇪🇬
8. Stonehenge, United Kingdom 🇬🇧
9. Ancient City of Petra, Jordan 🇯🇴
10. Floating pillar at Lepakshi Temple, India 🇮🇳
11. Antelope Canyon, Arizona, USA 🇺🇸
12. Temples of Abu Simbel, Egypt 🇪🇬
13. Door To Hell, Turkmenistan
The Door to Hell in Turkmenistan is a fiery crater burning for decades, originally ignited by a Soviet drilling mishap.
14. The Eye of the Earth, Croatia’s Cetina River
15. Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia
The world's biggest salt flat formed when an ancient lake dried up. Water sometimes covers it, creating a mirror-like reflection.
16. Richat Structure, Mauritania
It is also known as the Eye of the Sahara, is a massive, mysterious circular formation visible from space.
17. Great Blue Hole Belize
The Great Blue Hole formed during the Quaternary glaciation when sea levels were lower. Stalactite analysis shows it formed 153,000, 66,000, 60,000, and 15,000 years ago. When the sea level rose again, the cave flooded.
18. Dragon Tree found in the Canary Islands 🇮🇨
19. Lonar Crater lake, Maharashtra, India: A crater with a lake that is alkaline and saline at the same time
20. Devil Tower, Wyoming, USA is likely an igneous intrusion, formed underground from molten rock that pushed up into sedimentary rock and became solid ~50 million years ago.
21. The "Tunnel of light" in Petra, Jordan 🇯🇴
22. Underwater waterfall, Mauritius 🇲🇺
23. The Giant Groundsel is a prehistoric plants found on top of Mt Kilimanjaro
24. The Wave, Arizona
The Wave started forming 190 million years ago as desert dunes compressed and solidified into the striped sandstone we see today.
25. Eternal Flame Falls, New York, USA 🇺🇸
Eternal Flame Falls in New York features a natural gas seep, creating a flickering flame behind a waterfall, shrouded in mystery.
26. Drung Waterfalls, Kashmir, India 🇮🇳
27. Lavender fields in Valensole, France 🇫🇷
This blooms with vibrant purple flowers, offering picturesque scenery, aromatic air, and serving as a popular tourist attraction.
28. Waterfall of the Bride, Peru 🇵🇪
Legend tells of a couple torn by family rivalry. On their wedding day, the bride's father murdered the groom. Devastated, the bride begged Mother Nature to turn her into a waterfall, a symbol of her eternal love.
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