INSANE Rock Formations That Actually Exist

No matter how they got there, let’s take a look at some of the most beautiful weird, and surreal rock formations that you can find all over the world.
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6. Arches National Park
Back to America, we visit the Arches National Park, located in eastern Utah. Here, rocks arch and rise in unique ways, with the park including over 2,000 natural sandstone arches. The park encopasses a high desert, which spans over 76,679 acres of land in the Colorado Plateau. Famous geological formations like the Organ--a sandstone tower, and the ever so recognizable Delicate Arch. Over 1 million people visit the park per year. And the high traffic actually causes a threat to the ecosystem which already proves rather fragile.
5. Valley Of The Moon
There’s a bunch of places called “valley of the moon” all over the world and today we’re talking about the one in Ischigualasto, Argentina. At this Valley of the Moon, it includes these rugged towers of rock that rise of the dry desert area that contains little amounts of cacti and bushes. It’s even called the valley of the moon for its barrenness that resembles the surface of the moon in the sky. Though there’s not a lot of vegetation, there is a 130 foot tall petrified tree, which shows that the area once had lots of thriving plants.
4. The Megatherium Tunnels
One of the most unique rock formations were formed by neither nature nor man, but created by prehistoric giant animals known as megatherium, sloths that were the size of elephants. They lived in the lands of modern day South America and carved these huge tunnels in to the environment, called “palaeburrows.” The researchers who came across and examined the tunnels first thought they formed due to some geological process but then they came across the huge claw marks which signaled it was the doing of an animal. These sloths must have dug these tunnes anywhere from 2.5 million to 17,000 years ago.
3. Basaltic Prisms Of Santa Maria Regla
It looks like an image out of a fantasy movie, but the waterfall you see before you is real and can be found at Santa Maria Regla in Mexico. Water makes its way through these tall basalt columns into a ravine that flows from the San Antonio Dam. The columns measure from 30 meters at the shorts to the fifty meters at the highest, with each column complete with 6 sides. Tourists will find these waterfalls just an hour away from Mexico City. The columns formed as a result of basaltic lava flowing down and cooling and contracting as it solidifies.
2. Moeraki Boulders
Along the coast of New Zealand on Koekohe Beach, these large spherical boulders have situated themselves against the wet sand. The Moeraki Boulders range in sizes from 1.6 to 3.3 feet or 0.5 to 1 meter in diameter while others may measure up to 4.9 to 7.2 feet or 1.5 to 2.2 meters. According to local legend, the spheres were old eel baskets that washed ashore. Although they look man-made, the spheres were made due to the cementation of mudstone, made round by the water on the shore.
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