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Stone Wave (The Wave), USA
The spectacle, which consists of enormous “licked” arrays of red stone on the border between Arizona and Utah. The stone is actually a sand, which is for 190 million years becomes caked and turned into rock-like monolith. This place is not very well known among tourists, because it can get there on foot, must go more than 5 kilometers, and access is strictly regulated so as not to spread through the pebbles.


Antelope Canyon (Antelope Canyon), SSHAA
The most popular and well-known canyon in the southwestern United States, in the desert Navajo, Arizona. Consists of two sections, which are called the Upper and Lower Canyon, or “The Crack” and “The Corkscrew”. Navajo call the canyon «bighanilini», which simply means “the place where the water broke through the path in stone.” Logical: a) For the Lower Canyon also has a name - «Hasdestwazi» («stone vaults).

Great Blue Hole (Great Blue Hole), Belize
Part of the Lighthouse Reef System, this education is at a distance of 60 miles from Belize. Almost perfectly round hole with a diameter of 400 meters is the most desirable for all divers of the world. Inside it, the depth reaches 145 meters in depth, and on the walls of this natural well is found a large number of marine organisms that are just waiting to be photographed and examined:) Due to the large drop the color depth of water in this place is very different from the surrounding surface.

The crystal cave of giants (Crystal Cave of the Giants), Mexico
Deep in a mine in southern Mexico, in Chihuahua, there is a group of mineral crystals are hidden from human eyes. The height of several meters, the form usually rectangel, but there are cylindrical, and the color changes from silver to gold. Most likely, the crystals surrounding space was filled with rock, which is gradually washed out by underground water flows, leaving such an unusual formation.

Eye of the Sahara (Eye of the Sahara), Mauritania
This is an amazing place in the southwest of the Sahara desert has a diameter of 50 kilometers, so that it can be seen from kosmosa.Snachala believed that the reason for its creation - the fall of meteorites, but scientists later suggested that the circle was formed because of rising soil and erosion. The exact cause is unknown so far.

Cave of the blue lake (Blue Lake Cave), Brazil
Area of Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil has many beautiful underground lakes - Gruta do Lago Azul, Gruta do Mimoso, Aquário Natural. The first of these is a natural room, whose interior is formed bizarre stalactites and stalagmites, as well as a vast blue lake. The beauty of it is impressive all the tourists, who were able to see this miracle of nature, especially remembered the transparency of water and its saturated bright blue color.

Road Giants (Giants Causeway), Ireland
The territory covered 40 thousand basalt columns of regular shape, formed by ancient volcanic eruptions. it is located in the northeast of Northern Ireland, the majority of hexagonal columns, but there is a column with 4, 5, 7 and 8 faces. The highest of them reaching a height of 12 meters and the thickness of the lava around - up to 28 meters. In 2005, the publication of opinion polls Times, the road of giants was named the fourth wonder of the world in the UK (or, rather, the fourth miracle of the UK)

The Gates of Hell, Uzbekistan
This title gave the locals living in the town of Darwaz nearby. Formed these “Gates” as follows. Geologists in search of natural gas reserves were on the site exploration, and accidentally found a huge cave filled with flammable gas. This cavity is so large that it collapsed all the drilling equipment, and research were curtailed. To avoid a dangerous gas leak, it was decided to burn it. And now, the gas is burning for 35 years, and the end of this fire is not visible …