Secret in the world. Why did the Neanderthals die out? Mysterious death and the case of "Taman Shud"

We live in an era when everything that seems strange at first glance can be easily explained. Many diseases have become curable, history in general has already been studied, and technological progress is growing at a rapid pace. But still there are some quirky moments that are still worth thinking about.

But still, there are many secrets and mysteries that cannot be solved by a person. Many books have been written about these phenomena, and there are fierce debates among scientists and researchers, but the truth still lurks somewhere in the shadows. And their explanation can scare in earnest!

In this compilation, you will learn about the 25 greatest unrevealed mysteries disturbing mankind throughout its history.

taos noise

IN small town Taos, New Mexico, there is often a certain hum often heard on the horizon that can be compared to the sound of a distant diesel engine. Although it can be heard by the human ear, various sound detection devices fail to recognize it. This is known from studies of Taos noise, and to this day, no one still knows how this sound is created.

Voynich Manuscript

The Voynich manuscript was written in a language that researchers have tried to decipher for centuries, but to no avail. The only thing that can be recognized are the drawings found on some of the pages.

Jack the Ripper

The name Jack the Ripper has been mentioned in many shows and films, referring to a serial killer who killed 11 women in the East End of London in the late 1800s but was never found. Most of his victims were prostitutes whose bodies were mutilated beyond recognition and had their throats slit. Until now, absolutely nothing is known about this man, he seemed to have dissolved and disappeared as suddenly as he appeared. Nevertheless, his story excites the mind of mankind to this day.

Bermuda Triangle

Known as the Bermuda Triangle, this legendary expanse of ocean can be found between Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico. Pilots often talk about their instruments failing and the many ships that have been lost at sea. With explanations and clues to the mystery bermuda triangle, ranging from gas bubbles to aliens, no one is sure what is really behind such strange phenomena.

Cryptos

Not far from the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, you can behold a statue that has encoded encryption on its surface. This charming sculpture was created by Jim Sanborn to show that everything can be solved and deciphered using ciphers. Of the four parts of the inscription on the sculpture, only the first three have been deciphered. But even the bright minds at the CIA couldn't get to the bottom of Part 4.

Monument to the Shepherd

In Staffordshire, England, there is a sculpture that struck the wit and intellect of many intellectuals in an attempt to decipher the inscription on the Shepherd's monument - DOUOSVAVVM. Although the Monument was built in the 18th century, the inscriptions found here have never been deciphered, even 250 years after it was completed.

Tamam Shud

In December 1948, an unidentified man was found dead on Somerton Beach, located in Adelaide, Australia. In one of his pockets they found a piece of paper with the words "Tamam Shud" written on it. The words have been translated as "finished" or "finished" based on extracts found in Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat. Although governments around the world have attempted to identify the man, his identity has remained a mystery.

Zodiac Letters

During the 1960s and 1970s, the San Francisco Bay Area was swarmed by a criminal who was identified as the Zodiac Killer due to his stunning letters he sent to the police and the press. Although one of these four letters was deciphered and contained a very disturbing message, the other three have never been deciphered, until now.

Georgia Guidestones

Also identified as the American version of Stonehenge, the Georgia Guidestones are in Elbert County. The stone blocks are shrouded in mystery, although they were only installed in 1979. The 10 “new commandments” written on the walls have been translated into English, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish, although no one is sure why or who they were intended for.

rongo-rongo

On mysterious Island Easter, where the Moai statues stand, a series of glyphs called Rongo-Rongo was discovered. These glyphs have never been deciphered, although they may contain clues to the huge heads found scattered around the island. Be that as it may, these places are shrouded in mystery, which have been trying to unravel for decades.

Loch Ness monster

For ages, people have heard stories about the Loch Ness monster that baffled even advanced scientists. There have been many sightings over the years and photographs and video of the actual footage has been checked and reviewed over and over again. People tried to understand if it could be a sea snake, or a descendant of dinosaurs. Even today, some argue that the Loch Ness Monster still exists and swims under the waters of Loch Ness.

Yeti

Also known as Bigfoot, the Yeti is supposedly a creature that lives in the snowy mountainous regions of the United States and Canada. The mysterious creature can be identified as a gorilla, but its gait is more like that of a human.

Killing the Black Dahlia

22-year-old Elizabeth Short was very active and successfully moving into show business at the time when the Black Dahlia Murder (that was her nickname) took place. However, no one ever found out anything about the murder and its causes. There are still many rumors, but the truth has not been revealed.

stonehenge

While Stonehenge is a very exciting structure due to the large blocks of stones that sit on top of each other, the biggest mystery is not how the structure was created, but why it was created.

Shroud of Turin

Atlantis

The city of Atlantis was considered the abode and capital of Neptune, where mermaids and mermen lived. About Atlantis became known thanks to the records of Plato, who heard the conversation about mysterious continent during their travels. Now that Atlantis is deep underwater, many are still wondering if it really existed, knowing that there are certain objects underwater that could be the remnants of this once beautiful city.

extraterrestrial intelligence

From the mysteries found on Easter Island to the Bermuda Triangle, and even with the Roswell Incident during World War II, people have always thought about the fact that we are not alone in the universe. Some claim to have been abducted by aliens, while others believe that this is all nonsense. But so far there is no consensus on this issue.

Floating feet beach

It is not uncommon for people to rinse their feet in the sea on beaches, but for one beach in British Columbia the appearance of floating legs separated from the body in the water became in the order of things. The dismembered legs have washed ashore over the past few years, giving rise to numerous theories, none of which have been found to be real.

wow signal

When Jerry R. Achman worked on the SETI Project at Perkins Observatory, Ohio, he didn't expect to be able to receive a radio frequency supposedly coming from outer space. He was able to receive a 72-second signal from the constellation Sagittarius, which was never repeated. To this day, no one is sure of the origin of the signal. The signal got its name Wow (“wow!”) because that's what Jerry wrote on the edge of the printout.

D.B. cooper

When a criminal who called himself D.B. Cooper, hijacked a Boeing 727 along with $200,000 he parachuted out of the plane. He was never found, and remains the only unsolved case in American history aviation.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

He died an unexplained death, while being completely healthy. Many claimed that he died of a heart attack, but the doctors and other specialists who tested him, including his wife, confirmed that he was fine. His wife also made the allegation that he was poisoned while signing the Tashkent Treaty. This has never been proven since there was no post-mortem diagnosis.

Nazca geoglyphs

The Nazca civilization created some of the most spectacular geoglyphs on the face of the Earth. They include everything from spiders, monkeys, sharks, killer whales and flowers, the accuracy of which is simply incredible considering the Nazca had no way to examine their work from above. Nazca geoglyphs are still one of the most mysterious places on Earth, reports Lifeglobe.

Orang Medan

What happened to cargo ship Orang Medan, or "The Man from Medan" in Malaysia is perhaps one of the most fascinating and mind-boggling mysteries that has ever existed in seafaring history. It all started with an SOS message in 1947 that said the captain, along with the rest of the crew, was dead. To make matters worse, even the telegraph operator died during the transmission of the message. When Silverstar was able to receive a distress call and went to inspect the ship, they confirmed the deaths of everyone on board. There have been variants of ghosts, hazardous chemicals, and even aliens, but there is still no conclusion as to what actually happened to the ghost ship.

Ayud aluminum wedge

In 1974, a group of workers in Romania discovered three different objects in a 10-meter-deep sand trench. Two of them were prehistoric elephant bones that have been dated to 2.5 million years ago. The third object, however, was an aluminum wedge that was found along with ancient bones. This discovery stunned most researchers, as aluminum was difficult to create even by 19th century standards. While some consider this proof of the existence of aliens, others call the aluminum wedge a hoax. Regardless of what it is, there is no definite confirmation yet.

Poltergeist Mackenzie

Greyfriars Cemetery in Edinburgh is famous for the Mackenzie poltergeist, one of the most documented poltergeists in the world. Tours are led here, calling them a tour to world of the dead. People are especially frightened by the atmosphere of the Black Mausoleum, where Sir George Mackenzie lies. Is this all just a show? Possibly, but there is only one way to find out about it - to go here on your own and explore everything.

This list includes the most famous "mysteries of the century", from stones sliding through the desert to incomprehensible underwater sounds that people still managed to solve.

Richard III's grave found

The remains of Richard III, the last English king to die in battle, have been discovered under a car park in the British city of Leicester. It was one of the most striking archaeological finds of recent decades.

Source of the Nile

This may seem too obvious, but even a response like "Lake Victoria" was not that easy to get. It took the most modern technology to get the final clue, because the true location of the source of the Nile for a long time remained a mystery.

Why is the temperature of the "solar atmosphere" higher than the temperature of the surface of the Sun

The answer sounds too scientific, however, one way or another, the mystery was solved in 2009 thanks to a study by a group of European scientists. They managed to find an explanation for the fact that the temperature of the solar "atmosphere" reaches several million degrees Celsius, while the surface of the sun is much "colder" - only 5 thousand degrees Celsius. The answer is that it is the magnetic field that is the source of energy that causes solar flares and coronal plasma ejections.

Finding the flooded

The discovery in 1985, more than 70 years after the disaster, of a sunken ship was completely accidental and can only be explained by the greatest luck of the researchers.

Loch Ness monster

After decades of countless controversy and speculation, the photographer behind the world famous original image loch ness monster, admitted recently that it was a hoax.

Troy

For centuries mankind considered Troy mythical city, and the Trojan War is mostly a legend. This was before the discovery by the self-taught German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann of the remains of the ancient city, also called Ilion

"Magic" circles in the Namib Desert

For a long time, people have associated this phenomenon with anything from radioactive radiation to space alien camps. Only relatively recent studies have led to the final conclusion that the "culprits" of such a long intrigue are ... termites! (However, there are other explanations that we wrote about earlier)

The fate of Martin Bormann

One of the top leaders of the Nazi Reich was not located after World War II, despite intensive searches around the world. According to the most famous version, he managed to escape retribution and hide somewhere in South America, which there were numerous evidences that were exaggerated in the press for many years. However, in 1999 his corpse was found in an unmarked grave near the bunker where Hitler committed suicide.

"Fish flatulence" instead of Russian submarines

In the 1980s, Swedish sailors discovered underwater sounds of unknown origin. Many experts attributed them to Russian submarines threatening the free world. The answer caused an explosion of ... laughter - the source of mystical underwater sounds turned out to be the release of digestive gases from clusters of fish. The Swedes were subsequently awarded the so-called. Shnobel Prize.

Tomb of Tutankhamen

With this most "popular" ancient Egyptian pharaoh, a story reminiscent of the "Trojan" was connected. Until the discovery in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings of the completely untouched tomb of Tutankhamen, it was the subject of countless legends and hoaxes.

Eternal Roar

When researchers from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration discovered in the summer of 1997 in the southern part Pacific Ocean a low-frequency sound of unknown origin, at first its origin was attributed to some mysterious, incredibly large and loud animal. Later, however, most scientists agreed that this roar (The Bloop) was caused by the movement of ice masses.

Why do corals pulsate

The pulsation of coral colonies remained an unassailable mystery and the subject of much conjecture for several decades of the last century. This movement could not be explained by any pressing need. In the end, scientists were able to establish that in this way the corals maintain a low oxygen content in the surrounding waters and thereby attract a certain type of migratory algae, which forms the basis of their diet.

In what direction is the Earth's core spinning?

For a very long time, scientists could not understand how the solid inner core of our planet rotates in one direction, while the liquid outer core rotates in the other. Researchers from the University of the British city of Leeds have finally found the answer: the reason lies in the "equiopposite" interaction of near-Earth magnetic fields.

Do women blush in the dark

This question may sound stupid to you, but even Charles Darwin tried to get an answer to it. After all, if you think sensibly, in the dark it is impossible to see if she blushed, and if you turn on the light, then what happens next will no longer take place in the dark, regardless of the result. Fortunately, German researchers have thought of using special cameras that react to thermal radiation to put an end to painful doubts. Yes, women blush in the dark, how!

Antikythera mechanism

The fact that this ancient Greek "computer" was probably used for navigation purposes was known for a very long time (since the device was discovered among the wreckage of a ship). But the fact that a device of a comparable level of complexity was next built by people only a thousand years later is true hard to explain.

Causes of stomach ulcers

For many years, the pharmaceutical industry has made very good money selling anti-stress drugs to treat stomach ulcers. This continued until Australian scientists discovered that ulcers are often caused by a bacterial factor and are very easily cured.

The nature of absolutely black bodies is inexplicable within the framework of classical physics

Classical physics states that an ideal black body in a state of thermal equilibrium will radiate an infinite amount of energy. This is inconsistent with what is actually happening in the real world. To explain this phenomenon, the laws of quantum mechanics were required.

sliding stones

If you don't know, there are rocks in different deserts around the world that "slide", that is, move on their own. After several experiments, this effect was explained as follows: the movement of the stones, in all likelihood, is caused by the wind and the presence of ice on the desert surface.

What to do if the level of adrenaline in the blood drops rapidly? “Sit on a motorcycle or take a parachute jumping course,” the “sporty-minded” citizens will say.

And what about those who still have primary school skipped physical education classes at an ice cream parlor, those who associate the word "sport" with tedious torture? "Then horror!" - Action fans will shout. Hmm ... well, I don’t believe in computer special effects, especially since no movie can replace real impressions. Moreover, there are so many entertaining places in the world that beckon with their beautiful horror!

Underworld of Paris

Many tourists who have fallen into are trying to penetrate his heart. The waves of bustling Montparnasse throw travelers onto the left bank of the Seine, after which you can look into the Notre Dame Cathedral, and then walk along the Seine embankment to Concorde Square and go straight from there for a walk along Champs Elysees that lead to Arc de Triomphe. This path has been traveled by millions of feet in the hope that Paris will steal their souls forever and reveal its own in return. But it is much more interesting to penetrate into the belly of this old romantic city.

In the Montparnasse cemetery, among the graves of the greats of this world, an inconspicuous house was lost. This is the secret door in the dungeon that separates the world of the dead from the world of the living. The dilapidated steps promise an exhilarating tour of the Parisian catacombs. Initially, they were dug to extract stone for the construction of buildings.

However, in the 18th century, Parisians felt the tickle of death. There were no free burial places left in the city, so it was decided to move the remains from the cemeteries to the catacombs. Bones were stacked against one wall, skulls against another. Perhaps someone will cry out: “blasphemy!”. Maybe, but people don't change. This confirms the fact that many who happened to visit the underground kingdom of Paris did not miss the opportunity to take a bone or a shard as a souvenir.

Death in Venice

The most beautiful places hide the most terrible secrets. Who would have thought that a mourning shroud was hidden among romantic dresses in the closet of old Venice. While people were bathing in the carnival rampage in Piazza San Marco, people exhausted by the disease were dying on the nearby island of Poveglia.

Even in the early Middle Ages, the world began to eat the rotten fruits of the plague, there were more and more infected people, panic settled in every home. Everyone who was touched by the hand of the Black Death was taken away to while away last days to Poveglia. The sick did not have time to bury, so the bodies were simply burned. Century after century, the earth absorbed blood and ashes. Now 160,000 lost souls are flying over the island.

The story doesn't end there. In 1922, a psychiatric hospital was opened on Poveglia. It is unlikely that anyone here has been cured. The patients were haunted by screaming ghosts, causing them to lose their last bits of sanity.

On the sly, the chief physician of the hospital conducted experiments on the unfortunate with illegal drugs and, without ceremony, did a lobotomy with a drill and a hammer. In the end, the Venetian Mengele went crazy himself. He took his own life by throwing himself off the highest tower.

Now the place is abandoned, the locals stay away from the island, and there are still hospital beds in the room and fragments of medical devices lying around.

witchcraft mexico

Mexico is simply created for lovers of mysticism and devilry. There is a place in Mexico City where you can meet real witches. This is the city market of Sonora. Local sorceresses predict the fate of everyone here, and in the meantime they sell their potions. If someone has not had time to buy a couple of liters of snake blood or a few dried hummingbirds, welcome.

Traveling around Mexico is not for the faint of heart, and it’s better not to get to the place of Guanojuato at all for people with an unstable psyche. When the cemetery in the area could no longer accommodate the dead, the city authorities decided to reburial. Imagine the surprise when mummified bodies were found in the bowels of the earth instead of bones. Mexican soils are so dry that they do not decompose tissue! Especially for these finds, a museum of mummies was opened, which functions to this day. About each exhibit, you can say: "Hmm, well preserved!".

Mexicans have a special relationship with death. Mournful funeral rites are alien to this people. Instead, on November 1 and 2, people participate in a lavish carnival, preparing the favorite dishes of dead ancestors, baking sugar biscuits in the shape of shards, and making colorful figurines in the form of female skeletons, affectionately called Katrina.

Killer Island

On southwest coast Brazil is located picturesque island. There you just want to spend a couple of weeks unhurriedly communicating with nature. But nature does not want that, and this place is forbidden for a person. The indigenous inhabitants of the island, the spear-headed snakes, do not allow outsiders into their territory, and any encroachment is punishable by death.

Reptile venom acts with lightning speed, excruciating pain affects the entire body. Only one outcome is possible - death. You can't avoid being bitten. Scientists have calculated the density of the “population” of the island and made amazing conclusions: there are from one to five snakes per square meter. Therefore, a meeting with deadly reptiles is inevitable.

Visiting Count Dracula

high in Carpathian mountains, not far from the Romanian town of Brasov, stands the impregnable Bran Palace, which has exchanged the eighth hundred years. It is popularly known as Dracula's Castle. Historians agree that the "Transylvanian vampire" is just a figment of the imagination of the Irish science fiction writer Bram Stoker. But existence real prototype Nobody denies the famous bloodsucker.

According to one version, Bram Stoker wrote off the image of Dracula from the harsh Count Vlad the Impaler, who ruled Wallachia (modern Romania) in the 15th century. The country did not know a ruler more bloody than Tepes. As a child, he passed the test of a Turkish prison and avenged his lost childhood all his life. All Turkish soldiers who fell into the arms of the count were waiting for inevitable retribution.

The cruel ruler slew the enemies to the stake, for which he received the nickname Tepes, which in Romanian means "spearer". However, Bran Castle was not permanent place residence of Vlad. Some scientists believe that he stayed here several times for the night, others suggest that the count never appeared in the palace in his entire life.

Nevertheless, they go to Transylvania for a terrible and beautiful fairy tale, which reads: "In the backyard of Dracula's castle, an ancient well holds the heart of a vampire, and the 60-meter rock on which Bran rises hides many underground passages twisted into an intricate labyrinth."

Dutch torture

Today, The Hague has the status of the most "fair" city in Europe, since it is here that the UN International Court of Justice is located.

But it was not always so. In dark times, no one thought to write the Declaration of Human Rights, but the instructions for torture were learned by heart by the executioners of The Hague. They did not stand on ceremony with the criminals and knocked out testimony with a bone breaker. The organs of intractable lawbreakers were cut out and preserved, the skull was dissected, and the heads were mummified.

You can feel yourself in the shoes of a medieval intruder in the Hague Museum of Torture (“Gate of Prisoners”). All devices are so frightening that, under the fear of their use, you involuntarily confess to crimes that you did not even commit.

The guide offers the most persistent visitors to experience the deadly weapons for themselves, not in full force, of course. True, there are not many volunteers. Most people are not able to pass even half of the halls, and especially impressionable ones even faint.

black hollow

Each country has its own gripping sad myth that personifies the people living in it. Bloody horror stories are not in the spirit of China. If something happens there, then it is a quiet nightmare behind seven locks.

Heichju is famous for its mysterious and anomalous power. People call this place none other than "Death Valley" or "Black Bamboo Hollow". Here, at the foot of the mountains, an unhurried river flows, wrapped in dense fog. The hollow attracts into its bosom, promising magnificent views, and in order to admire them, some paid with their lives. The thick haze of Heichju seems to dissolve people in itself. Planes fall into this black abyss for no apparent reason, and the missing are not found.

The anomalous zone rebelled in 1950. In just a year, more than a hundred people were lost here, and crashed passenger Boeing. None of the crew reported that the plane was crashing. The most interesting thing is that during the study of the vessel no technical problems were found. After 12 years, the hollow swallowed up an entire exploration group. Only the leader managed to escape. The man says that the fog filled the valley abruptly, but dissipated after a few minutes ... along with all the members of the expedition.

Despite the infamy of Black Bamboo Hollow, Lately tourists from all over the world come here. Now the Chinese are organizing colorful holidays there, selling trinkets and souvenirs; no one has been missing for a long time. Who knows, perhaps the hollow has so far sunk into a pleasant slumber, like a sleeping Vesuvius.

As soon as sometimes a person does not call himself? And the king of nature, and the crown of creation, and Homo sapiens. But is it really so? Both on the planet Earth and in the Cosmos there is a lot of unexplored secret and mysterious things. Man cannot unravel the secrets of nature, riddles ancient civilizations, comprehend the inexplicable and mystical phenomena. And I want to know everything!

Twins are a truly amazing phenomenon, especially when you consider that there are twins not only in the flesh, but also ghostly. And sometimes they arise not only spontaneously, but also deliberately, according to someone's will, and then the boundaries of being a ghost and a being in the flesh literally disappear.

Each of us at least once! heard about monsters living in the depths of some reservoirs. The most famous of them, of course, is the mysterious animal from the Scottish Loch Ness. But it also has its own mysterious underwater creatures, encounters with which do not bode well. Some consider them relic lizards or fish preserved from ancient times, others - a play of the imagination or a consequence natural anomalies. But what are these monsters really?

Along the pages of Slavic epics and legends, in addition to gods and heroes, dozens of amazing creatures roam freely, no less interesting. But we know much less about them.

Probably, many have heard about the miraculous weeping and bleeding icons. There are many legends about their miraculous acquisition and renewal. But there are icons that have very strange properties. Sometimes this is the work of human hands, and sometimes it is very difficult to explain the "anomaly".

Kiev Pechersk Lavra is one of the ancient monasteries in the world. For centuries, legends have been told about him. But the most mysterious of them is cursed treasure the black prince of Mafawa, who to this day haunts treasure hunters.

At all times in Rus', people treated icons with reverence. In almost every house, holy images hung in the most honorable place - in the red corner. In trouble and illness, they turned to them for help. There are many cases when icons helped to overcome adversity. However, studying the healing power of icons, scientists discovered that the impact of some of them can be ... dangerous for humans.

Even those who do not particularly like forest walks know that the swamp is a dead place.
True, mushroom pickers and hunters are not embarrassed. After all, it is in the swampy area that there are many berries and mushrooms, and hunting there brings rich trophies. The Tikhvin swamps on the Veps Upland, north of St. Petersburg, are especially notorious.

Unsolved natural mysteries of the world

stone waves

Our planet Earth will never cease to amaze us. Let me introduce you to another extraordinary place - wave rock located in Perth, Australia. Wave Rock is a stunning rock that resembles the crest of a huge wave, as if someone had frozen the water and turned it into stone. This is part of Hyden Rock, which, according to scientists, is over 2,700 million years old. Recently, more and more tourists flock here, and surfers dream of getting a photo with such a huge "wave".

Swallow Cave

Unique creations of nature

Black Rock Desert (USA). This mystical place is located in the state of Nevada. Brightly colored geysers, dry riverbeds and gloomy cliffs make this a fantastic place.

"Yellowstone National Park". Located in the USA. These are terraces of hot springs, like a living sculpture that is constantly changing due to the smooth flow of water and limestone erosion.

"Lake Powell, Glen Canyon". Located in the US state of Utah. National Reserve Glen Canyon, created in 1972, covers an area of ​​more than 1 million acres. This is a harsh desert with numerous canyons stretching for 298 km along Lake Powell. The lake arose as a result of the obstruction of the Colorado River and its tributaries.

"Dry Valley". Located in Antarctica. This desert is the most dry place on earth, and the only part of Antarctica not covered by ice. There has been no precipitation here for several million years.

Socotra Island. It is part of a small archipelago of six islands in Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia, about 350 km south of Arabian Peninsula. Socotra is one of the world's most isolated archipelagos of continental origin. Despite the hot and dry climate, the island is replete with many extremely rare representatives of flora and fauna, a third of them are endemic, i.e. found only here.

Quarry "Rio Tinto" in Andalusia (Spain). The huge quarries of Rio Tinto create a landscape similar to the moon. The quarries are named after the river of the same name that flows here and leaches minerals from huge craters. Mining here has been carried out for many centuries, so the river turned bright red-orange.

"Spotted Lake". The lake is located in British Columbia, Canada. Depending on the weather conditions and seasons, the lake crystallizes and turns into a certain color. A lot of “spots” are formed on the lake - circles of minerals. This is the world's largest concentration of sulfates, as well as silver and titanium.

"Frozen Waterfalls" They are located in Mexico. From Spanish (Hierve el agua) is translated as "boiling water". This is another one of the wonders of the world. They are formed by water with a high content of calcium carbonate, which, settling, forms streaks and bizarre landforms.

Arches National Park. The park is located in the state of Utah (USA), near the town of Moab. This is a high-altitude desert, painted in all shades of dark red, in which various natural formations rise (arches, columns, fantastic figures). This place is rightly called one of the "Natural Wonders of the World".

Stone forest "Shilin". Located in China. It is a stunning example of karst topography. The rocks are made of limestone and shaped by water that has destroyed everything but these tree-like pillars. Since the Ming Dynasty, Shilin Stone Forest has been known as the "First Wonder of the World".

"Eye of the Sahara" (Rishat structure). Located in Mauritania. This natural formation with a diameter of about 30 km is clearly visible from space. Its origin is still a mystery. Initially, it was believed that the Eye was formed as a result of a meteorite fall. However, modern geologists believe that the Richat structure is the result of erosion.

"Gates of Hell" (Davraz). This famous burning crater is located in Turkmenistan in the middle of the Karakum desert. The crater, with a diameter of 60 m and a depth of 20 m, is a well in which gas burns, set on fire after the completion of exploration geological work.

"Petra" is an ancient city. Located on the territory of modern Jordan, at an altitude of more than 900 m above sea level, in the narrow canyon of the Siq. In 2007, Petra was recognized as one of the new Seven Wonders of the World.

Rice terraces "Banaue". They are located in the Philippines in the Ifuago Mountains. They are spread over an area of ​​over 4,000 sq. km, at an altitude of 1524 m above sea level. locals they are called "the eighth wonder of the world": hand-carved terraces on which rice has been growing for 2000 years.

Ice caves "Eisreisenwelt". There are many in the world ice caves, but the Eisreisenwelt caves are the largest among them. The total length of the caves is 40 km.

Drawing "hummingbird" on the Nazca plateau, Peru.

Goreme National Park, Turkey

Volcano Ankisabe, Madagascar. erosion on slopes.

"Chocolate Mountains". Bohol Island, Philippines "Baccanil Archipelago". Located 800 km west of the coast of Australia. The age of the rocks on the islands is two billion years.

"Cone on Tolbachik", Russia. These breakthroughs on the Kamchatka Tolbachik volcano, reminiscent of a Martian landscape, appeared in 1945. The place where the photo was taken is called the “lunar rover base”. It was here that Soviet lunar rovers were tested.

Antelope Canyon, USA

Big blue hole(Great blue hole), Belize

Crystal Cave of the Giants, Mexico

Deep in a mine in southern Mexico, in Chihuahua, is a group of mineral crystals hidden from human eyes. Their height reaches several meters, the shape is usually rectangular, but there are also cylindrical ones, and the color varies from silver to golden. Most likely, the space surrounding the crystals was filled with rock, which was gradually washed away by underground water flows, leaving such unusual formations.

Blue Lake Cave, Brazil

The Mato Grosso do Sul region in Brazil contains many picturesque underground lakes - Gruta do Lago Azul, Gruta do Mimoso, Aquario Natural. The first of them is a natural room, the interior of which is formed by bizarre stalactites and stalagmites, as well as an extensive blue lake. Its beauty impresses all tourists who managed to see this miracle of nature, the transparency of the water and its rich bright blue hue are especially remembered.

Giants Causeway, Ireland

The territory, covered with 40 thousand basalt columns of the correct form, was formed as a result of an ancient volcanic eruption. it is located in the northeast Northern Ireland, most of the columns are hexagonal, but there are columns with 4, 5, 7 and 8 faces. The highest of them reaches a height of 12 meters, and the thickness of the solidified lava around is up to 28 meters. In 2005, Times polls ranked Giant's Causeway as the fourth wonder of the world in the UK (or rather, the fourth wonder of the UK).

Fire Falls - "Horse Tail"

This stunning waterfall is located in Yosemite National Park, California (USA). It's called Horsetail Fall horse tail).

Lightning Catatumbo

Lightning can be seen from a distance of up to 400 kilometers. They were even used for navigation, which is why the phenomenon is also known as the "Lighthouse of Maracaibo".

local defenders environment think that this unique area should be under the protection of UNESCO.

Fish rain in Honduras

Rain of animals is a relatively rare meteorological phenomenon, although such cases have been recorded in many countries throughout human history. But for Honduras this phenomenon is regular. Every year between May and July, a dark cloud appears in the sky, lightning flashes, thunder rumbles, a strong wind blows and heavy rain pours for 2-3 hours. As soon as it stops, hundreds of live fish remain on the ground.

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