Monday, December 9, 2013
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10 Real Places Straight Out Of A Nightmare
Listverse explores natural places that belong more in a nightmare than any real-life location. Between surreal landscapes, terrifying natural phenomenon, and bottomless lakes with hidden surprises, here are 10 places that mother nature created out of pure spite.
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Truk Lagoon
Truk Lagoon is located off the coast of Micronesia, and beneath the pristine tropical waters lies one of the largest ship graveyards in the world. In the midst of WWII, Japan chose Truk Lagoon as one of its headquarters for heading off the Allies in the South Pacific. It soon became their largest stronghold in the area, until February, 1944, when American troops launched an attack that sank more than 60 ships and 275 airplanes.
Now, the eerie waters hide hundreds of wrecks. The lagoon is ringed by a ridge of coral that protects it from the turbulence of the open ocean, so the majority of the wrecks are surprisingly intact, offering a ghostly view into the past for any diver who wants to brave the sharks. Unused bombs, boxes of supplies, and human skeletons still lay littered throughout the holds and on the decks of many of the ships.
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The Door to Hell
Derweze is a small village in northern Turkmenistan. Located in the middle of the desert and with a population of only 350, it doesn’t make for a popular tourist destination. That goes double once you realize that Derweze is the location of the Door To Hell—a 70 meter wide hole in the earth that has been burning for over 40 years.
In 1971, a team of geologists accidentally broke through the surface into a massive underground cavern, which proceeded to cave in and swallow the drilling rig. Worried that the cave was releasing dangerous gases, the geologists lit it on fire to burn off the gases. Sure enough, it caught fire—and then never went out. The crater rests atop an underground field of natural gas, and it has kept the fire burning for nearly half a century.
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The Afar Depression
Imagine a world where the earth beneath your feet is constantly moving, chasms appear out of nowhere, and at any moment the ground might disappear completely. Welcome to the Afar Depression of eastern Africa, one of only two spots in the world where a mid-ocean ridge is visible on dry land. As the name suggests, a mid-ocean ridge is usually found in the ocean, and is the line where two tectonic plates meet. They’re also some of the most geologically active locations on the planet.
In a two month stretch between September and October in 2005, the Afar Depression experienced 165 earthquakes over 3.9 magnitude, with smaller ones occurring almost continuously. The area is home to one of the largest lava lakes in the world, the Erta Ale, and it’s believed that the Horn of Africa will eventually split away from the rest of the continent at this site.
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Hodge Close Quarry
Right in the heart of the U.K. lies one of the most terrifying images mother nature has ever created. Hodge Close Quarry is an old slate quarry that has more recently been used as a diving spot, with a network of caves that can only be reached from the outside by underwater passages, and according tothe website the diving site has seen its fair share of deaths over the years.
But in 2011 photographer Peter Bardsley noticed something startling: When the water is smooth, it forms a picture-perfect image of a monstrous leering skull. Half of the skull is created by the shape of the cliff side and the other half comes from the reflection in the water. Shrouded by mist and with a perpetual chill to the water (6 degrees Celsius on average), the quarry nevertheless attracts a few brave divers every year.
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Namaskaro
Namaskaro is a region in Iceland that’s located at the base of Mt. Namafjall—just one of numerous volcanoes in the area. In fact, the entire region is a hotspot of geothermal activity, and offers one of the most bleak and unsettling landscapes on the planet.
The ground is covered with solfaratas—boiling pools of mud that are anywhere from a meter to over a dozen meters wide. Peppered in between the solfaratas are spouts of sulfur-filled steam and volcanic gas that create a constant haze over the region.
The boiling, steaming earth, combined with the complete lack of vegetation, gives
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