10: The Water Palace One of the most unbelievable sights in all
of India is a gorgeous palace called Jal Mahal.
It's a water palace, with an amazing castle that seems to float in the middle of Sagar
Lake as if taken straight from Shangri La!
The palace has high sand-colored stonewalls which reflect beautifully from the deep blue
lake waters.
Plus, there is a lovely garden sprouting out from the top of the palace, making it truly
look unique.
It's one of the most photographed places in the country and almost looks like it shouldn't
even exist.
It’s straight out of a fairy tale.
The amazing thing is how the solid stone walls are able to hold back the millions of liters
of water trying to get in.
The palace was designed using special lime mortar that has prevented a single water leak
for the past 250 years.
But when was this amazing place built?
The water palace was constructed hundreds of years ago back in 1750, which actually
isn’t that long ago.
It was made by Maharaja Madho Singh I as a private retreat for himself and his gang of
duck hunting friends.
The palace was improved significantly in the 18th century and then later abandoned, turned
into a miserable ruin, and revamped and restored recently by the Indian government about 10
years ago.
9: Reed Flute Cave Reed Flute Cave looks like a magical cavern
from a princess story book.
But it's a very real place.
It’s located in a small suburb in China just a few miles from the Guilin city center.
The cave is about 787 feet(240m) deep and goes on for nearly 2000 feet(607m).
It's filled with incredible stalagmites and stalactites, tall stone pillars, and beautiful
stone walls.
It's been forming for the past 180 million years.
Today, it's known to the locals as “the Palace of Natural Art.”
But what makes this cave so spectacular?
It's because of how radiantly gorgeous it is inside.
Upon entering the cave, the first thing visitors notice is just how bright it is.
All the rock walls are shining with rainbow colors.
Instead of being a dreary dark cave, it’s a rainbow wonderland.
There's an underground lake flowing through the cave that sends dazzling reflections sparkling
across the ceiling and walls, making the natural beauty that much more dynamic.
When you step out of the cave, you will find reeds growing and thriving outside the mysterious
cave, which can be used to make flutes.
That’s actually how the cave was named!
Close your eyes and imagine yourself standing in the midst of the reeds, breathing the fresh
air and catching the soothing music of the flute.
Outside the cave, it's a perfect tranquil place where China's "Thoreau'' may live.
Amazingly, the cave was only discovered in the 1940s by Japanese troops fleeing the war.
They stumbled in by total accident.
The government opened it up as a tourist destination and installed the lights themselves.
Unfortunately, the rainbow colors aren’t actually natural, but how cool would that
be!?
8: The Bone Church In the country of Czech, there is a Gothic
church unlike any other on the planet.
It’s near the small city of Kutna Hora and looks like something taken from some kind
of German bedtime story.
It's called the Bone Church, and it's constructed from the bones of about 30,000 people who
died from the plague.
Okay!
It just went from cool and interesting to creepy real quick!
This is one of the weirdest places on Earth, and definitely a must-see for the morbidly
inclined.
According to National Geographic, a local abbot brought sacred soil all the way from
Jerusalem in the 13th century back to this church and spread it in the cemetery.
Word got out to the public and suddenly everyone wanted to be buried here.
But just shortly after when the plague descended on Europe, people began dying in droves.
30,000 people died from the plague and were added to plots here, and then the Crusades
added another 10,000 corpses.
Literally bodies on bodies on bodies.
There weren't enough plots to bury the dead, and in the 15th century, many of the bones
began being moved into the church and shaped into decorations.
A local woodcarver crafted an unforgettable interior of bleached human bone.
Today, the church is still standing.
It looks like the evil lair of some cannibal king.
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7: Door to Hell As hard as it is to believe, there is a door
to hell located in the wastelands of Turkmenistan.
Yes, the opening to the underworld exists and it’s in Asia.
Deep in the brutally hot and terribly dry Karakum Desert, close to the tiny town of
Darvaza, there is a hole in the ground about 230 feet(70m) wide.
The hole has been on fire for the last five decades.
It's technically a gas crater, though it looks more like the gates to hell.
The fiery glow constantly coming out of the hole can be seen for miles in the distance.
But just how did such a terrifying hole of burning fire come to exist in such a remote
place?
The creation of the hole goes back to the year 1971.
A Soviet drilling company was looking for oil when they accidentally punched a hole
into an underground gas cavern.
The ground beneath their feet collapsed, the drilling rig fell into the hole, and poisonous
fumes squirted out into the air.
To stop an environmental catastrophe, the Soviets thought it would be best to light
the gas on fire.
They thought the gas would run out and the fire would eventually just stop burning in
just a couple of weeks.
But 50 years later, the flames are still present and some are convinced the Soviets punched
a hole into Hell!
Will the fire ever go out?
It’s a hot debate!
6: Ancient Mountain City There is an ancient city on top of a mountain
in the country of Sri Lanka that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.
The ruined city is called Sigiriya, and it has some unique features not found anywhere
else on the planet.
It includes a moat, tall wall fortifications, landscaped gardens, and a mysterious monastery.
The truly fascinating thing about the city though is that it's sitting about 800 feet(244m)
in the sky on top of a granite rock.
The only way to the top of the mountain city is up an extremely precarious staircase and
it is definitely not an easy journey.
It doesn't help that the mountain is also full of spiders, because why wouldn't it be?
The city itself was built for King Kasyapa around 477 AD.
It was meant to be an impregnable fortress where the king could hide out from his enemies.
However, it turned out that having a fortress on top of a mountain was a bad idea because
it could easily be sieged.
Who knew?
The king died when his half brother showed up to steal the crown and the mountain city
was abandoned.
It wasn't discovered again until colonial archaeologists stumbled upon it in the 1800s.
It is now a tourist destination you can visit today!
But you’ll have to climb those stairs!
5: Fingal’s Cave There is no place on Earth quite like Fingal’s
Cave in Scotland.
It's a unique structure, a sea cave formed entirely from hexagonal basalt columns.
These are the same columns which form the Giant’s Causeway.
They are unique to Scotland and considered to be one of the true wonders of the natural
world.
Fingal’s Cave doesn't look like it should even exist.
Upon entering the cave, whether by the crude walkway of hexagon rock columns or by sea,
you immediately enter what almost feels like the underworld.
It's creepy, the columns are so strange that they blow people’s minds, and the way it
was formed is just as interesting.
While Fingal’s Cave may look built by hand, it was actually created roughly 60 million
years ago by volcanic eruptions.
The lava hardened, then cooled and shrank and cracked.
Ah the cycle of life is a beautiful thing!
The cracks were at angles of 120 degrees, creating the hexagons you see today.
The origin of the name 'Fingal's Cave' is wrapped in a curious myth.
Once upon a time Finn MacCumhaill, or Fingal, was possibly an Irish general who had a group
of extremely faithful warriors - comparable to King Arthur and the knights of the Round
Table.
Fingal is supposed to have been the father of Ossian, traditional bard of the Gaels.
Gaels migrated into Scotland from Ireland until the Norsemen began their raids on the
Scottish coast, and the stories of Fingal would doubtless have come across too.
Soon he became very well known in Scotland and, praised by the Ossianic heroic songs
and verses.
His name was a natural choice to assign to this dramatic and awe inspiring cavern.
4: The Alexandria Catacombs Out of all the tombs in Egypt, the Alexandria
Catacombs are hands down the most insane.
These catacombs don't look like any other necropolis in the world and are reminiscent
of something out of Lord of the Rings.
Journeying into these catacombs is like stepping into another world.
You half expect zombie draugr to rise from their tombs and try to eat you!
Alexander the Great originally established the city of Alexandria.
He was one of the most famous Greek Kings and army leaders and one of the greatest conquerors
in history.
These are the Catacombs of Kom El Shuqafa, one of the largest burial sites in all of
Egypt.
It dates back to the times of Greco-Roman Egypt, only discovered in the 20th century
completely by accident when a donkey fell through the hidden entrance.
The way into the catacombs is a little treacherous.
You have to go down a winding staircase that descends 115 feet(35m) into the ground.
Inside the catacombs is a mixture of ancient architecture, including decorative art and
a variety of elements that are Roman, Hellenistic, Egyptian, and Pharaonic.
The tomb was built in the 2nd century AD, it has three separate levels filled with creepy
catacombs tombs, and part of it is even submerged underwater.
3: Hang Son Doong Hang Son Doong is the largest cave in the
world.
It's mysterious and unbelievable.
The cave is located deep in the jungle of central Vietnam.
Amazingly, it was only discovered a few years ago when a local farmer needed shelter from
a passing storm.
He discovered the entrance of the cave and went inside.
He was then shocked to uncover a forgotten landscape probably last seen by the dinosaurs.
The ceiling is over 300 feet(91m), the cave is filled with bizarre bird and monkey species,
and even today, there have been more visitors to the peak of Mount Everest than inside the
cave.
It's such a unique ecosystem and so unbothered by humans that to let people inside would
be its doom.
The Hang Son Doong Cave is literally a world of its own.
It has clouds inside of it, underground rivers and streams, unique fauna and animals, and
its very own atmosphere.
It's barely even been explored, seeing as the first scientists only made their way into
the cave back in 2010.
The entrance alone is big enough to house an entire city block.
Imagine the magic the farmer must have felt when we discovered it!
2: The Medicine Hat Geoglyph In Canada, just 40 miles(64km) from the small
city of Medicine Hat, there is a place known as the Indian Head geoglyph, or the Badlands
Guardian.
At first, it doesn't seem like a real thing.
The pictures look like they've been edited or somehow manipulated to create the face
of a Native American in the low hills.
But the geoglyph is very real, a lot like the strange geoglyphs in Peru, the Nazca Lines.
It can only be seen from the air.
There were also probably more of them at one point but they have been destroyed by the
weather.
According to a research paper commissioned by the Earth’s International Research Society,
the mysterious site is related to an early Mesoamerican culture that thrived in Canada
between 900 BC and 1500 AD.
Up until recently, nobody thought such a thing could exist, as there’s nothing else like
it in all of Canada.
We still don’t know which culture carved the face into the ground or why they would
or who they thought would see it..
It’s also a pretty new discovery, only spotted in 2005 thanks to Google Earth.
1: Crystal Cave In Mexico, there is a cave of crystals about
900 feet(274m) underground that happens to be one of the most dangerous caves in the
world.
This place is surreal.
It’s located near Naica and first discovered by miners in the year 2000 looking for fresh
ore deposits.
The cave is filled with milky white crystals, some of which are up to three feet wide and
over 36 feet(11m) long, or bigger than telephone poles.
These are beams of pure gypsum, and the cave itself looks like part of some weird underground
treasure cavern.
The deposits formed because of magma-heated waters, which cooled over thousands of years
and allowed the gypsum to grow in an environment of pure calcium and sulfate.
As for why the cave is so dangerous, it's actually a very harsh environment.
The conditions inside the cave are too brutal for a human.
The humidity level is over 90% and the air temperature is over 122 degrees Fahrenheit.
In this environment, a person will sweat themselves dry, then shrivel up and die in under 20 minutes.
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