Articles avec le tag ‘Russia’
Locations around the world that are stranger than your imagination – Part 2
The Grand Prismatic Spring, USA
Here is another classic example of a US Natural Wonder making us convinced we’ve accidentally taken Acid or at least some foreign desert Peyote. Is this God just splotching around with his magic paintbrush or is this rich oozing color just something that could have happened any old millennia? This 300 feet / 91 meter wide and 160 feet / 49 meter deep hot spring originally described as a “boiling lake” comes from Yellowstone National Park and sits alongside a 50 foot / 15 meter geyser. From a distance this could be described as a huge earthy pimple. The picture reveals its colossal size. See that grey tubing alongside it? That’s the highway with a little speck of a bus riding along. The reason the coloring looks so rich is because of the surrounding bacteria and microbes which become pigmented while coexisting with the mineral water for long periods of time. The spring boils at a scintillating temperature of 160° F/71° C daily.
City Eating Earth Vortex? Mirny, Russia
Known as the second largest hole in the world, only second to George Bush (the biggest asshole in the world). What either looks like a neighborhood destroying vacuum/vortex wormhole, a gap in space and time leading to another dimension, or that monster from Return of the Jedi that Jabba attempts to feed Luke to, is actually just a really deep and foreboding looking diamond mine. Although the all destroying vortex theory is not far off. The giant thing has been known to actually prey on helpless helicopters who get sucked in to all of its 525 meter depth by the downward draft, propelling them to their eminent doom.
The Sedlac Osuary, Czech Republic
We should change the title of our article to “10 Locations stranger than your imagination and also scarier than your worst nightmares… or at least that one movie: Jeepers Creepers 2.” But to save ourselves from a mouthful we only have this one single church of terror on the list. It’s a sanctuary fully decorated with human Bones, complete with bone chandelier and all! But you must be wondering: Why would anyone actually create something that sounds like the twisted mansion out of an obvious plot twist from a slasher flick? Apparently the reason is: there were just too many extra bones lying around in this former graveyard site. So many, in fact, that there wasn’t enough room in the earth to contain them all. So what better way to solve a space problem and celebrate the dead than turning them into religious architecture and furnishings? All the while attracting plenty of tourists looking with a reason to travel to the Czech Republic (for reasons other than buying cheap beer and absinthe of course). That’s killing three birds with one stone (or with thousands of skulls, whichever way you like)! The Republic of Czech offers no rest for the dead indeed in their Boney Church.
