The Stone Forest (Shilin) - Yunnan, China

China’s Yunnan Province is famous for its Stone Forest. Covering an area of three-hundred square kilometers (or 186 miles) the stone forest is a massive otherworldly landscape of karst formations over 270 million years old. It has been known since the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 A.D.) as the 'First Wonder of the World.

Shillin is divided into many smaller stone forests and features caves, waterfalls, ponds, a lake with an island, and even an underground river. Two of the smaller individual stone forests, Naigu Stone Forest and Suogeyi Village, are a part of the South China Karst, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The site is classified as a AAAAA-class tourist site. Walking through the site, visitors marvel at the natural stone masterpieces and are bewitched by the intricate formations. The magnificent, strange and steep landscape creates countless labyrinthine vistas, including:
Major Stone Forest, Minor Stone Forest and Naigu Stone Forest, all of which feature stones in various formations. Animals, plants, and even human figures can be found here. Some are elegant, some are rugged, and each is lifelike with its own distinguishing characteristics.

Plitvice Lakes National Park

Plitvice Lakes National Park

Plitvice Lakes National Park

Luscious green scenery, beautiful lagoons, and amazing waterfalls makes the Plitvice Lakes National Park, one of the most beautiful natural sights in Europe. The national park was founded in 1949 and is situated in the mountainous karst area of central Croatia, at the border to Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1979 the park was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Plitvice Lakes National Park

Plitvice Lakes National Park

Plitvice Lakes National Park contains a series of beautiful lakes, caves and waterfalls. These have been formed by processes typical of karst landscapes such as the deposition of travertine barriers, creating natural dams. These geological processes continue today. The waters flowing over the limestone and chalk have, over thousands of years, deposited travertine barriers, creating natural dams which in turn have created a series of beautiful lakes, caves and waterfalls. These geological processes continue today. The forests in the park are home to bears, wolves and many rare bird species.

Crooked Forest | Mysterious Forest in Poland

The Crooked Forest is is a grove, located in Nowe Czarnowo, West Pomeranian, and Poland. Surrounded by a larger forest of straight growing pine trees near Gryfino, north-west Poland, this grove of curved trees - dubbed the 'Crooked Forest' - is a mystery.

There are about 400 trees in the forest of pines has been formed with a 90 ° horizontal bend in his trunk before going up vertically again and all face bends to the North. It is generally believed that some form of human tool or technique was used to make the trees grow this way, but the method and motive are not currently known.

Speculation about these trees bent is to use for making bent-wood furniture, the ribs for boat hulls or yokes for ox-drawn plows. However, before they could be harvested, the outbreak of the Second World War, interrupted the plans of whoever was growing and tending the grove, leaving their plans a mystery.