Rock Formations

Dinosaur eggs were first discovered at these fiery red cliffs.

Legend says this little-known stone circle is formed from people petrified as punishment for dancing on the Sabbath.

Cairns built to bring travelers good luck stretch across the land like miniature stone mountains.

Reaching the "Church in the Sky" requires scaling the cliff face of a sandstone pinnacle with a 650-foot drop.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

The hottest, driest, and most scenic desert on Earth.

A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.

Did Inca children also slide down these smooth rocky slopes above Cusco?

These two giant boulders mysteriously perched on a 60-foot cliff may have been slung up there by a raging tsunami.

The remains of a 37,000-year-old prehistoric society were discovered in this mammoth cave, one of the largest in Asia.

The abstract sandstone rock formations at this Algerian national park are rich with prehistoric art.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

Conspiracy theories and occult legends surround this mysterious natural rock formation.

There's a strange stone hoodoo towering atop a wooded hillside and no one is quite sure how it got there.

Icelandic folklore says this giant boulder was ripped from the mountains and placed at its current location, where it became home to elves.

It's estimated that half of the world's gold was mined from South Africa's "golden arc."

Local legends say that fairies used to dance in the moonlight here and invite handsome young men into their grottoes.

Thousands of years of crashing waves gave this mushroom-shaped rock its svelte figure.