The most surreal landscapes of our planet
Our planet is beautiful. There are so many beautiful and wonderful places on it that you can't count them all. And at the same time, there are a huge number of truly surreal landscapes on Earth. In these places, time seems to have stopped, they seem so unusual and delightful that sometimes it seems that they are not on our planet at all or not from this world. It's impossible to show everything, but some places are so amazing that you want to admire them again and again.
Tourists on a path next to a Large prismatic spring in Yellowstone National Park, USA. It is the largest hot spring in the USA and the third largest in the world after the springs in New Zealand and Dominica. (AP)
Dragon trees, Socotra, Yemen. (Alamy)
Tunnel of Love in Ukraine. A couple walks through the leafy "tunnel of love" near the city of Klevan. This tunnel is actually a three-kilometer part of a private railway serving the plant. Trains deliver materials to the factory through this tunnel three times a day. (Rex Features)
Sossusflei, Namibia. Salt and clay plain surrounded by high red dunes, located in the southeastern part of the Namib Desert. (Rex Features)
Lake Pukaki, New Zealand. It is the largest of three Alpine lakes stretching from north to south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Trench on the South Island of New Zealand. (Alamy)
Cappadocia, Anatolia, Turkey. Here you can see rocks and rocks of various shapes, colors and sizes. (Alamy)
The Hitachi Coastal Park in Japan occupies about 190 hectares. Flowers bloom here all year round. The park is famous for its blue nemophile Mendis flowers. In spring, more than 4.5 million blue flowers grow here. (Alamy)
A couple photographs Antelope Canyon, Arizona, from the inside. This is the most visited canyon in the southwestern part of America. It is located on Navajo lands. (AP)
The Odle Mountains, Italy, part of the Dolomites. The dolomites are named after geologist Deoda Grate de Dolomie, who was the first to describe the dolomite stone, "guilty" of the characteristic shapes and colors of these mountains. (Rex Features)
Gates of Hell, Darvaza, Turkmenistan. This creepy cave in the Karakum Desert has been burning for more than 40 years. It was found in 1971 by Soviet geologists when the ground under their drilling rig collapsed, leaving behind a huge hole with a diameter of 70 meters. The crater was filled with potentially poisonous gas, and it was decided to set it on fire. Scientists believed that the pit would stop burning in a few days, but the fire is still burning here with the same force. (Rex Features)
Rice terraces, Bali, Indonesia. (Rex Features)
Wenxu Canyon, China. After millions of years of wind and rain erosion, the canyon has formed various landscapes, strange rocks and rich colors, thanks to which it looks like Mars. (Alamy)
Giants Road, Antrim, Northern Ireland. There are about 40,000 interconnected basalt columns, which are the result of the eruption of an ancient volcano. The road is located in County Antrim on the northeast coast of Northern Ireland. (Rex Features)
Giant Buddha, China. It was built during the reign of the Tang Dynasty. The Buddha is carved from a rock that is located at the confluence of the Minjiang and Dadu rivers in the southern part of Sichuan Province in China. (Alamy)
Uyuni Salt marsh, Bolivia. The world's largest salt marsh with an area of 10,582 sq. km. It is located in Potosi, in the southwest of the country. (Rex Features)
The Wave, Arizona, consists of intertwining U-shaped valleys that were eroded during the Jurassic Period. (Alamy)
Travertine, Pamukkale, Turkey. Pamukkale means "cotton castle" in Turkish. This is a natural object in the province of Denizli. It consists of hot springs, trenches and terraces. (Alamy)