175 Unbelievable Places That Look Like They’re From Another Planet

I had heard of New Zealand but never believed it was real until now. Thank you glowworms!

Cos being 'Middle-Earth' wasn't enough?! *ggl*

Stunning, ethereal, I was in awe when I went through it, like going on the river Styx!

Edgbaston, Birmingham im afraid..

But these maggots are so pretty!

thank you, I was just wondering what they were! :)

Half true. We don't have fireflies in nz, these guys grow into a mosquito type thing.

ew! Anyway it is beautiful scene inside a cave :)

Reminds me of scene out of Avatar!

You don't climb them. Just hiking and cable cars. If you can walk uphill you can see everything.

no body climb them. there are bridges between.

There are cable cars to go up, no need to climb. Riding in a cable car at Avatar mountains is like going to heaven :)

There are cable cars there, no need to climb. Riding in a cable car at the Avatar mountains, it is like going to heaven :)

The hole underneath it is, but that on top is a natural combination of.....chocolate, vanilla and mint! And jam, lots of jam.

And it's quite small too: only about 5 feet (1.5 m) high, and 12 feet (3.7 m) wide, counting the mound on which it sits.

It was http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/flygeyser.asp

I read someone was drilling for oil and this was the result, and it's still growing..

It was accidentally created by well drilling in 1964 exploring for sources of geothermal energy. The well may not have been capped correctly

No sugar. It's sugar. All the white sugar comes form there.

It is calcium carbonate.

Calcium carbonate

Beautiful!

Calcite-laden waters have created these terraced basins

@captaingrumpy - calcium - it's the best to walk on, and, at the top, there is a hot spring, feels like bathing in warm Perrier

These are limestone deposits formed into travertines. Very beautiful and all that is left of a once huge area. They are now protected.

Calcium deposits actually

It is actually calcium carbonate.

Actually, it's travertine, a kind of sedimentary rock. And I went there! <3 You gotta see this.

Travertine

Limestone

Not salt. Calcium deposits. Wikipedia is your friend.

No I think it is minerals

No sugar. that's where all the white sugar comes from.

The density of ice like this is such that only blue light can pass through, so that's why it has a blueish tinge to it.

Very cool indeed

There are some in Iceland too and yes, they are blue.

It's photoshopped... The colors are not really this vibrant, unfortunately..

Cool, it is like a box of mixed crayons!

It would be grand to be there amongst the clouds!

Yes

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