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Archeological ruins on Tinetto Islet
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Sauropod (Dinosaur) Tracks
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These are actual Sauropod (Dinosaur) tracks from the Jurassic Period. The main set of tracks meanders down the middle of the Blanco riverbed from west to east (left to right). It is crossed by at least 5 other sets of tracks running north to south. These tracks have been a rumor around Texas for years, but they do actually exist. They are not part of any State or National Park yet. They are surrounded on both sides by private property, so if you decide to visit them, take all the photos you want, but please respect the local homeowners. Don't litter, deface, or damage anything.

Plymouth Rock
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Site of Mayflower landing in 1620.

Breaking Bad Filming Location "First cook site"
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By: fin.
Filming location used in the popular AMC television series "Breaking Bad".

Uluru / Ayers Rock
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By: ixwef.

Medicine Bluffs - Geronimo!
Ozzy (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Ozzy.
These are the bluffs where Geronimo as the story says, while on horseback jumped off while being pursued by soldiers. He is said to yell out his name "Geronimoooooo" in defiance as he made the jump down the bluffs. This is the reason why US paratroopers yell out the same when jumping out of airplanes. A tradition that has been around for a long time. Along with this story it is also said that an hawk or eagle was the only thing seen when the soldiers approached the edge looking for Geronimo.

Adam's bridge
hhgygy (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: hhgygy.
Adam's Bridge, also known as Rama's Bridge or Ram Setu, is a chain of limestone shoals, between mainland India, and Sri Lanka.

Fly Geyser
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By: skyeye.
The Fly Geyser was accidentally created in 1916 during the drilling of a well. Dissolved minerals started rising and piling up, creating the mount on which the geyser sits, which is still growing to date. Today, water is constantly squirting out reaching 5 feet (1.5 m) in the air and coloring the cone with minerals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_Geyser

Sótano de las Golondrinas - Cave of Swallows
hhgygy (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: hhgygy.
With a depth of 1220 feet (372 m) the biggest cave shaft in the world

Richat Structure
TexasAndroid (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: TexasAndroid.

Garden of the Gods
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By: dblerner.

The Dry Salvages
AlejoHausner (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlejoHausner.
Rocks NE of Rockport on the Massachussetts coast. They figure prominently in T.S. Eliot's poem by the same name.

Monument Valley Navajo Nation Tribal Park
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By: tresverdes.

Rock City
dblerner (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: dblerner.

Kondyor Massif
sharky (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: sharky.
It's not a volcano or a meteor strike. It's an intrusion of rare minerals originally over 5,000 miles deep in the earth that tunneled up through the mantle over a billion years ago. Erosion caused the formation you see today.

Badlands National Park
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By: damein234.

Giant's Causeway, The
dda (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: dda.
The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption. It is located on the north-east coast of Northern Ireland, about 3 kilometres (2 miles) north of the town of Bushmills. It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986, and a National Nature Reserve in 1987 (by the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland). In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, the Giant's Causeway was named as the fourth greatest natural wonder in the United Kingdom. The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea. Most of the columns are hexagonal, although there are also some with four, five, seven and eight sides. The tallest are about 12 metres (36 ft) high, and the solidified lava in the cliffs is 28 metres thick in places.
The Giant's Causeway is today owned and managed by the National Trust; it is the most popular tourist attraction in Northern Ireland.
(Wikipedia)

Red Rocks of Sedona
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By: dwfarmer.

Bisti Badlands
focusfree (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: focusfree.
Not like any where else. See the pictures on the URL, or google "Bisti Badlands".

Oung Jmel
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.
About 6km East of the Mos Espa set lies Oung Jmel, better known as the camel head rock. This was the site were Darth Maul arrived on Tatooine and released the Sith Probes to search for Queen Amidala’s ship. The same location was used for Maul flying over the cliffs after having found Anakin and Qui-Gon.

Delicate Arch
leenathan12 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: leenathan12.
Delicate Arch in Arches National Park outside Moab, Utah. This is the most prominent arch in the park.

Giant Rock
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
Several people are known to have lived in a cavity, hollowed out, in and under this giant rock. In 1942, one occupant, an alleged German spy, blew himself up with dynamite as deputies were questioning him (the deputies survived, miraculously). Five years later, a former test pilot and UFO abductee, George Van Tassel, moved his family into the rock, and the location became known as a site of major UFO activity (Van Tassel built the Integratron energy machine three miles south of the Rock). Popular UFO conventions and events were held here until the 1970's. Located north of Landers, it has since become a popular rave location, attracting as many as 3,000 partiers. On February 21, 2000, a huge piece of the rock split off, and nearly crushed an RV. Some say the break occurred due to the heat from a bonfire that burned next to the rock the night before. Others have other ideas. Giant Rock was said to be the "largest free-standing boulder in the world." Now that claim needs to be reconfirmed.
Fun travelogue of a visit to Giant Rock.

Big Rock, The (glacial erratic) near Calgary
edv (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: edv.
This is the 'Big Rock' near Calgary Alberta (between Okotoks and Black Diamond).
It is a rather large chunk of rock deposited by receding glaciers during the last Ice Age (known as a glacial erratic).
It is also the namesake for the Big Rock Brewery, a famous local brand of beer.

The Bloody Gate site ("Game of Thrones")
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.
Littlefinger escorts Sansa to the gates of the Vale in episode #405 "First of His Name". Later, Arya and the Hound arrive at the gate only to learn that Lysa Arryn died the day before in episode #408 "The Mountain and the Viper". Also used for a Wildling camp in a fissure on the south side of The Wall in episode #401 "Two Swords".

Aruba's Natural Bridge
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By: marttijn.

Etretat Cliffs
stz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: stz.
Cliffs and natural arches in Etretat, Normandy.

Rainbow Bridge
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By: nic.

Caudy's Castle
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.
Caudy's Castle is a rock pinnacle of Ridgeley (Oriskany) sandstone that stands 1,400 feet (326 m) above sea level over the Cacapon River near the Bloomery Pike (West Virginia Route 127) south of Forks of Cacapon in Hampshire County, West Virginia. The rock formation is named after James Caudy, an early Hampshire County pioneer and settler who fought off an attack by fifteen Native Americans from the rock in the 1730s. Caudy's Castle is also known as Castle Rock. The pillar lies on the southern end of its namesake, Castle Mountain.

Trona Pinnacles
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
The Trona Pinnacles is one of the most unusual geological features in the California Desert National Conservation Area. The unusual landscape consists of more than 500 tufa spires (porous rock formed as a deposit from springs of streams), some as high as 140 feet (43 m), rising from the bed of the Searles Lake (dry) basin. The pinnacles vary in size and shape from short and squat to tall and thin, and are composed primarily of calcium carbonate (tufa). They now sit isolated and slowly crumbling away near the south end of the valley, surrounded by many square miles of flat, dried mud and with stark mountain ranges at either side.
The Pinnacles are recognizable in more than a dozen hit movies. Over thirty film projects a year are shot among the tufa pinnacles, including backdrops for car commercials and sci-fi movies and television series such as Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, The Gate II, Lost in Space, and Planet of the Apes.

Remains of Leona Quarry
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
The quarry dominates the view of the East Bay hills for anyone in the East Oakland / Alameda / San Leandro area. It can even be seen from San Francisco.

The Big Rock (glacial erratic)
This is the 'Big Rock' near Calgary Alberta (between Okotoks and Black Diamond).
It is a rather large chunk of rock deposited by receding glaciers during the last Ice Age (known as a glacial erratic).
It is also the namesake for the Big Rock Brewery, a famous local brand of beer.
Big Rock is one of several thousand erratics found in Alberta and Montana called the Foothills Erratics Train, which originated from a landslide in the Tonquin Valley of Jasper National Park, from Lower Cambrian-aged Gog Group. Big Rock was transported on the Cordilleran Ice Sheet approximately 12 to 18 thousand years ago to its present location.
The people of the Blackfoot First Nation used Big Rock as a landmark for finding a crossing over the Sheep River (where Okotoks stands today) long before European settlement. The town's name Okotoks is derived from "o'kotok" [ˈokətok], meaning "Large Rock" in the Blackfoot language.
The first geologist to discover Big Rock was James Hector in 1863, who misidentified the feature as a klippe.

Butler Motor Speedway
milwhcky (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: milwhcky.
Dirt track races have been held here since 1952. The track was originally a 1/4 mile oval. It was enlarged to its current 3/8 mile size in 1956. Sprint cars, stock cars, and modifieds race here weekly throughout the summer.
Fans are advised to bring personal protective equipment, as the racing surface has more rocks than I have ever seen at a dirt oval track. I was hit twice in my one and only visit to the track, and I witnessed others who were also pelted by golf-ball sized rocks.

Independence Rock Wyoming State Historical Site
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.
This granite monolith is one of the more famous landmarks along the Oregon Trail and has served as a meeting place since the area was first inhabited.
Independence Rock is most famous for the names inscribed on its face: the names and dates of people who passed by this place in search of a new life in the frontier.
It was the names carved in stone here that caused Father Peter J. DeSmet to appropriately name this place “The Register of the Desert” in 1840.

La Lobera (Sea cave with collapsed roof)
doranchak (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: doranchak.
URL is to a discussion of the hole on another Google Maps site.

Former location of Ripple Rock
Ripple Rock was an underwater, twin-peaked mountain in the Seymour Narrows of the Discovery Passage in British Columbia, Canada, a part of the marine trade route from Vancouver and coastal points north.
It was destroyed by a planned explosion on April 5, 1958. This is a National Historic Event in Canada. The Ripple Rock explosion was seen throughout Canada, live on CBC Television. It was one of the first live coast to coast television coverages of an event in Canada.
The explosion was noted as one of the largest non-nuclear planned explosions on record.

Rock of Gibraltar
The Rock of Gibraltar (sometimes by its Latin name, Calpe) is a monolithic limestone promontory located in Gibraltar, off the southwestern tip of Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. It is 426 metres (1,396 feet) high. The Rock is Crown property of the United Kingdom, and borders Spain. The sovereignty of Gibraltar was transferred to the Kingdom of Great Britain by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 after the War of the Spanish Succession. Most of the Rock's upper area is covered by a nature reserve, which is home to around 250 Barbary Macaques - the only wild primates found in Europe. These macaques, as well as a labyrinthine network of tunnels, attract a large number of tourists each year.
The Rock of Gibraltar was one of the Pillars of Hercules and was known to the Greeks as Mons Calpe, the other pillar being Mons Abyla or Jebel Musa on the African side of the Strait. In ancient times the two points marked the limit to the known world, a myth originally fostered by the Phoenicians.

Alicia Annie Reef, Spratly Islands
mstoess (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mstoess.

Blautopf
mstoess (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mstoess.
The Blautopf (which means "blue pot") is a spring draining the karst formations north of Blaubeuren. In the depth of the source an underwater cave system opens. Its expanse is not explored completely today.

Castle Rock
Parabellum (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Parabellum.

Hole in the Rock
A 14-room house carved from a sandstone monolith by Albert Christensen, who spent 12 years on the project, and his wife Gladys, who continued the work for another eight years after he died in 1957. The cavity is 5,000 square feet of fully furnished, manmade cave, with a fireplace and a deep fryer. It is now operated as a tourist attraction, and includes taxidermy exhibits, a lapidary room, gift shop, snack bar & picnic area.

Goat head beach & Arched Rock (The Goonies final scenes)
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.
This where the last 8 minutes or so in the film were shot.
To the right out in the water you see Arched rock that can be seen in several scenes including where Rosarita dumps the bags of gems in Mrs. Walsh's hands and the final scene where the Goonies sit and the rocks and say goodbye to "One-Eyed" Willy's ship sailing by.

Kjeragbolten
Kjerag or Kiragg is a Norwegian mountain, located in Lysefjorden, in Forsand municipality, Rogaland. Its highest point is 1110 m above sea level, but its northern drop to Lysefjorden attracts most visitors. The drop is 984 m (3,228 ft) and is just by the famous Kjeragbolten, a 5 m³ big stone which is plugged between two rocks.

Bell Rock
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By: robsv.

Strange Land Formation
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By: archcorsair.
half: hi-res, half: lo-res

Teapot Rock
Teapot Rock is a distinctive rock formation in Natrona County, Wyoming that lent its name to a nearby oilfield that became notorious as the focus of a bribery scandal during the Presidential administration of Warren G. Harding, the Teapot Dome scandal. The rock is a sandstone formation about 25 miles (40 km) north of Casper. The outline of the rock once resembled a teapot and gave its name to the nearby geological formation that encompassed the Teapot Dome Oilfield. The Teapot Dome field was one of several such oilfields in the area, and was in 1915 designated Naval Petroleum Reserve Number Three as part of a program to ensure that the U.S. Navy, which was converting to oil-fired boilers at the time, would have sufficient fuel reserves in an emergency.
The Teapot Dome Scandal was an unprecedented bribery scandal and investigation during the White House administration of United States President Warren G. Harding.

Vasquez Rocks
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.
Vasquez Rocks have been used innumerable times in motion pictures, various television series.

Ventifact rocks
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.
Ventifact is erosion due to high winds and sand/ice that blasts the surfaces. These rocks on the Gonzalez spur are subject to lots of wind and erosion which has caused these natural sculptures

Natural Bridge (Virginia)
LancelotLink (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: LancelotLink.
Natural Bridge, in Rockbridge County, Virginia is a geological formation in which Cedar Creek (a small tributary of the James River) has carved out a gorge in the mountainous limestone terrain, forming an arch 215 ft (66 m) high with a span of 90 ft (27 m). The site was surveyed by a young George Washington.

Bird rocks (The Goonies)
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.
In the scene where Mikey, Chunk, Mouth & Data climb up the hill dragging their bikes, these rocks can be seen in the background along with haystack rock (straight south) further down the beach. Mikey then looks through the medallion to line up the lighthouse with the two rocks out in the water. This scene was shot from Ecola park just north of these rocks

Former uranium ore open-cast mining
mstoess (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mstoess.
1946 - 1990 the WISMUT company, a german-soviet venture, prospected for uranium ore needed in the soviet nuclear industry at several sites in Thuringia and Saxony. The miners took high health risks. Approx. 5.000 - 15.000 men died of miners lung diseases and radiation induced cancers in the latter years. Surface devastations and rock heaps remain unresolved problems to this day.

Enchanted Rock
TexasAndroid (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: TexasAndroid.
Enchanted Rock is a pink granite mountain in the Llano Uplift about 27 km north of Fredericksburg. Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, which includes Enchanted Rock and the surrounding land, spans the border between Gillespie and Llano counties, south of the Llano River. Enchanted Rock covers about 640 ac and rises around 130 m above the surrounding terrain to an elevation of 556 m above sea level. It's the largest pink granite monadnock in the country. In 1936, the area was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark. In 1971, it was designated a National Natural Landmark by the NPS. The Enchanted Rock Archeological District
was added to the NRHP on 8/29/84.
Enchanted Rock was rated in 2017 as the best campsite in Texas in a 50-state survey.[7]

Window Rock
LancelotLink (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: LancelotLink.

"Wolf Face" in mountains
mikeb9991 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mikeb9991.
Land creates a wolf like face in the mountains when looking to the west.

Three Rock transmitter site
boothy443 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: boothy443.
An addational transmitter is located just to the north of the main site.

Ancient City of Sigiriya
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.
Sigiriya (Lion's rock) is an ancient rock fortress and ruins of a castle situated in central Matale District of Sri Lanka. It is a popular tourist destination and also popular for the ancient paintings (frescos) very similar to the paintings in Ajanta Caves of India. It was built during the reign of King Kasyapa (477 – 495 AD) and one of the seven World Heritage Sites of Sri Lanka.

Rockall - Missing Imagery
tallturtle82 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: tallturtle82.
Rockall is a remote, uninhabited islet in the North Atlantic Ocean annexed by the United Kingdom in 1957. Rockall is measured at 17.15-meters high (56.27 ft) and is made of granite.
The rock has been noted in records since the 16th century. The UK claimed the rock in 1955 and the 12 nautical miles and economic zone surrounding the islet. Over the years, Denmark, Iceland and Ireland have fought the UK over the rock's territorial oil and fishing rights.
In 2013 Marine Scotland discovered four new species of animals in the ocean surrounding Rockall. They include a sea snail, two species of clam and a marine worm.
Fascinating place.

Blackgang Chine
Hinkkanen (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Hinkkanen.
Blackgang Chine is the location of a natural chine (a coastal ravine) in the soft Cretaceous cliffs near Ventnor at the southern tip of the Isle of Wight, England. Unstable terrain due to the underlying Gault Clay strata has resulted in a succession of huge landslips, notably in the 1920s, giving the area a very rugged and spectacular appearance quite atypical of southeast England.

Textbook example of a 'slump'
A Slump is a form of mass wasting event that occurs when loosely consolidated materials or rock layers move a short distance down a slope. The landmass and the surface it slumps upon is called a failure surface. When the movement occurs in soil, there is often a distinctive rotational movement to the mass, that cuts vertically through bedding planes (landslides take place along a bedding plane or fault). This rotational movement moves along a curved slip surface of regolith (the failure surface) which overlies bedrock. This results in internal deformation of the moving mass consisting chiefly of overturned folds called "sheath folds." The surface of the mass often remains relatively undisturbed, especially at the top. However, hummocky ridges may form near the toe of the slump . The cut which forms as the landmass breaks away from the slope is called the "scarp" and is often cliff-like and concave.

Beachy Head
Beachy Head is a chalk headland on the south coast of England, close to the town of Eastbourne in the county of East Sussex, immediately east of the Seven Sisters. The cliff there is the highest chalk sea cliff in Britain, rising to 162 m (530 ft) above sea level. The peak allows views of the south east coast from Dungeness to the east, to Selsey Bill in the west. Its height has also made it one of the most notorious suicide spots in the world.

Durdle Door
daggerwell (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: daggerwell.
Durdle Door (sometimes spelled Durdle Dor) is a natural limestone arch on the Jurassic Coast near West Lulworth in Dorset, England.

Zhangjiajie rock formations
milwhcky (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: milwhcky.
Zhangjiajie National Forest Park features over 3,000 quartz-sandstone pillar rock formations. Most of the pillars are hundreds of feet tall, with the tallest measuring 3,544 feet. This park was the inspiration for the floating mountains seen in the 2009 film Avatar.

Olgas, The (Kata Tjuta)
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Mushroom Rock
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By: kkeps.

The Wave (Arizona)
fin (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: fin.
A beautiful sandstone rock formation in Arizona.

Brandenberg Structure
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By: hkfczrqj.

Cosquer Cave
dda (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: dda.
Underwater entrance

"Flatiron" rock formation
milwhcky (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: milwhcky.
One of several large rock formations in Boulder Mountain Park.

High Desert Sinkholes
LanternBearer (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: LanternBearer.
Sinkholes or weathered off cavern remnants on high desert plateau.

Twelve Apostles
faz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: faz.
The Twelve Apostles are sandstone rock formations.

Faraglioni
Faraglioni is the collective name for three stacks located off the island of Capri in the Bay of Naples. The stacks have been given their own names: Stella (still attached to the main island), Mezzo (after Stella), and Scopolo (or Fuori). The lacerta viridens faraglionesis or the blue-tinted lizard can only be found on Scopolo.

Bayard Rock
hhgygy (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: hhgygy.

Ringing Rocks Park
Parabellum (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Parabellum.
Ringing Rock Park is located near the town of Pottstown
I first tried to hit the rocks using the rental mini-van metal jack, but no tones were produced. Some of the larger boulders produced some bell-like tones when stuck with a 10 pound rock.
The boulders themselves are basaltic rocks that intruded into the surrounding red shale (or so says the Philadelphia Mineralogical Society). After doing some web research, it appears that the best implement to produce sound is a hammer of some kind. One web page states that different hammers will produce different sounds when hit against the same rock. Perhaps a light claw hammer and a 2-pound sledge hammer would make for an interesting set of drum sticks.

Old Harry Rocks Purbeck
k9ine (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: k9ine.

Kjerag Cliffs
losbeats (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: losbeats.
These nearly vertical cliffs rise over 1000m above the Lysefjorden below. This is a very popular BASE jumping site

Hole in the Wall
DonMartini (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: DonMartini.
The Hole In The Wall: Near Coffee Bay is a prominent rock formation with a big hole in the middle, which has become a symbol for the Xhosa of a great historical tragedy, the "Great Cattle Killing".
The Hole in the Wall is a unique structure with a huge detached cliff that has a giant opening carved through its centre by the waves.
The local Xhosa call this place "izi Khaleni", which means "place of thunder". During certain seasons and water conditions (high tide) the waves clap is such a fashion that the concussion can be heard throughout the valley.
The Legend of The Hole in the Wall: A young girl called nongqawuse had seen a messenger from the realm of the ancestors at a waterhole. She told her uncle Mhlakaza about her vision. As he was an important Xhosa priest, his social rank granted a great impact to the prophecy he derived from his niece's vision. He announced that soldiers who were incarnations of the souls of dead Xhosa warriors, would arrive on the 18th of February over the sea, come onto land through the "Hole in the Wall" and defeat the hated British. But, he continued, the Xhosa had to make a sacrifice to help the warriors by destroying all their cereals and killing all their cattle. After the victory, there would be food in abundance for everybody.
The Xhosa followed the instructions in his prophecy and killed their whole stock of cattle. The catastrophe took its course. Thousands of Xhosa starved and the British had an easy time conquering the remaining people.

Ringing Rocks
Parabellum (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Parabellum.
A boulder field made up of rocks that ring when struck. Click the "More Info" link to hear them ring.

Il Pulo di Molfetta
The Pulo is a karst depression of ovoid shape, with a perimeter of about 600 meters and a depth of 30 metres. This is in particular a doline collapse, that is originated from the collapse of the vault of a large underground cavity.

Monument Valley
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.

Old Man Mountain
The Old Man of the Mountain, also known as the Great Stone Face or the Profile, was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, USA that, when viewed from the correct angle, appeared to be the jagged profile of a face.
Defying attempts at preservation, including the use of cables and spikes for most of the 20th century, the formation collapsed to the ground between midnight and 2 a.m., May 3, 2003.

Morro Rock
Streetview in postcard quality

Fort Rock State Park
jbottero (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: jbottero.
Like a desert mirage, this monolith rises huge out of the barren, immense flatness of Oregon’s high desert. An enormous near-circle of towering jagged rock walls make it seem like a fort. Hike around and you'll soon realize it's even bigger than it looks! It's an old shield volcano set in what was a shallow sea in prehistoric times. As you walk around inside, imagine the early American Indians who canoed to and from what was then an island. Sandals found in a nearby cave are the oldest ever discovered in Oregon, dating back around 9,000 years. Years ago, my father and I drove our camper right up into the middle and spent the night, but you can’t get away with that sort of thing anymore.

Champe Rocks
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.
Champe Rocks are a pair of large crags in Pendleton County in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, USA. Easily visible from West Virginia Route 28, they are situated within the Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area. They are — along with the nearby and more celebrated Seneca Rocks — the most imposing examples in eastern West Virginia of several formations of the white/gray Tuscarora quartzite and are a popular challenge for rock climbers.
Champe Knobs, from which the Rocks emerge, are a northern extension of the River Knobs, which contain other similar "razorback" ridges or "fins" such as Judy Rocks at Judy Gap, and Nelson Rocks at Nelson Gap. Champe Rocks are 2,257 feet above sea level.

Namib desert mountain
pvdmark (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: pvdmark.
Martian-like landscape in the Namibian Desert. This mountain is probably part of the Awasib mountains. Try viewing in 3D in GE.

Houses and roads going over the top
Hinkkanen (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Hinkkanen.
At the Blackgang Chine, Isle of Wight, Uk erosion is eating away roads and buildings that are part of Blackgang Chine amusement park which is continually moving its facilities further inland from the clifftop.

Areopagus
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Paarl Rock
TexasAndroid (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: TexasAndroid.

Jebel Uweinat

Percé Rock
Percé Rock (French rocher Percé, "pierced rock") is a huge sheer rock formation in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence on the tip of the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec, Canada, off Percé Bay. Percé Rock appears from a distance like a ship under sail. It is one of the largest and most spectacular natural arches in the world and is considered a natural icon of Quebec. It is a major attraction in the Gaspesie region.

Bayard Rock
LancelotLink (VirtualGlobetrotting)

Trango Towers
Great Trango Tower has the world's largest nearly vertical drop at 1340m (4396 ft).

Azure Window
Fab (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Fab.

Coves del Drach
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.
The Caves del Drach (Catalan pronunciation: [kɔvəz ðəɫ ˈdɾak], modern Catalan spelling: Coves del Drac, Spanish: Cuevas del Drach, English: "Caves of Drach", lit. "Dragon caves") are four great caves that are located in the island of Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. They are in the municipality of Manacor, near the locality of Porto Cristo. The caves extend to a depth of 25 m, reaching 2.4 km in length. The four caves, called Black Cave, White Cave, Cave of Luis Salvador, and Cave of the French, are connected to each other.
The caves have formed by water being forced through the entrance from the Mediterranean Sea, and some researchers think the formation may date back to Miocene. There is an underground lake situated in the caves called Martel Lake, which is about 1150 m in length and 30 m in width.

Tower Butte Summit

Sarisariñama sinkhole

Katskhi pillar
Fab (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Fab.
The Katskhi pillar (Georgian: კაცხის სვეტი, kac'xis svet'i) is a natural limestone monolith in the western Georgian region of Imereti. It's about 40 m high, and overlooks the small river valley of Katskhura, a right affluent of the Q'virila.
The rock, with visible church ruins on a top surface measuring 150 m2, has been venerated by locals as the Pillar of Life and a symbol of the True Cross, and has become surrounded by legends.

Old Man of Hoy
The Old Man of Hoy is a 449 feet (137 m) sea stack of red sandstone perched on a plinth of Igneous Basalt rock, close to Rackwick Bay on the west coast of the island of Hoy, in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. It is a distinctive landmark seen from the Thurso to Stromness ferry, MV Hamnavoe, and is a famous rock climb. It is close to another famous site, The Dwarfie Stane.

Baby Jesus Ridge
AKpilotEMT (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AKpilotEMT.
Located in Pima County on the western slopes of Mt. Lemmon.

Externsteine rock formation

Jebel Arkenu
Maybe volcanic? Is the blue a sign of natural copper compounds? Beautiful!