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1. The Wave in Canyonland National Park in Utah, USA is a wave-like natural rock formation of Navajo sandstone.
2. The Beauty Pool in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, USA is a hot spring which allows luminous algae and bacteria to flourish creating a vivid array of colors.
3. The Moeraki Boulders in New Zealand are gigantic stones which look like the eggs of some giant sea monster which sit mysteriously on the New Zealand coastline.
4. The Sliding Stones of Death Valley National Park in California, USA continue to baffle experts who are at a loss to explain why they have moved across a perfectly flat bed despite weighing up to 700 pounds each.
5. The Peculiar Pinnacles in Nambung National Park in Western Australia are amazing natural limestone structures, some standing as high as five meters.
6. Crater Lake in Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, USA was formed after the collapse of the volcano, Mount Mazama.
7. The Elephant Rock in the Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada, USA is a strange natural sandstone rock formation.
8. The Balls Pyramid in Lord Howe Island in New South Wales, Australia is the world's tallest sea stack at 562 meters high which was formed through the processes of coastal geomorphology -- the combined action of time, water, and wind.
9. Hiller Lake in Western Australia with its pink color has never been properly explained by scientists, although they claim that it is not due to the presence of algae.
10. The Great Blue Hole in Belize, Central America is a large submarine sinkhole which is over 984 feet across and 407 feet deep believed to have been formed during several episodes of quaternary glaciation when sea levels were much lower.
11. The Badwater Salt Flats in Death Valley National Park in California, USA is the lowest point of the United States at 282 feet below sea level.
12. The Tsingy in Ankarana National Park in Northern Madagascar is a series of carpet limestone pinnacles.
13. The Champagne Pool in the Waiotapu geothermal area of New Zealand is a colorful hot spring with a surface temperature of 74 degrees celsius. It bubbles due to rising carbon dioxide.
14. The Tufa Pinnacles of Mono Lake in the Sierra Nevada area of California USA) are "salt pillars" formed as a result of a closed hydrological basin where water flows into it but it doesn't flow out (like the Dead Sea in the Middle East), and the only way for water to leave is through evaporation.
15. The Bryce Amphitheatre of Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, USA) is made of bizarre pinnacles of limestone rock and eroding fins which create a majestic display.
16. The Puente del Inca in Argentina is a natural rock bridge covered by bright orange and yellow bacteria mats created by natural sulphur springs which cover the rock walls.
17. Rainforest sinkhole in Jaua-Sarisarinama National Park in Venezuela is a natural depression or hole in the Earth's surface.
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