The Serranía de Hornocal, a mountain range in Argentina. Known locally as the 14 Coloured Mountains, the area is noted for the discovery of fossilised dinosaur remains. In keeping with that, this image was taken from a tourist viewpoint - and displays a patchwork of colours that stretch across the landscape like a huge chain of fossilised shark teeth.
Early morning mist in Bagan, the City of Temples in Myanmar - so-called because it is home to more than 2,500 Buddhist stupas, temples and monasteries – the largest and densest concentration of Buddhist monuments in the world. As large as that sounds, it was once home to more than 10,000, but wars and earthquakes have taken their toll.
VW graveyard in a Californian desert. The company were forced to buy back 350k vehicles in the US which they had programmed to falsify the results of air pollution tests in 2015 - and this is one of the three sites where they stored them.
Claustral Canyon in the Blue Mountain National Park in New South Wales. A popular, but dangerous, 9km trail for only the fittest of hikers during Summer months, it offers abseiling, swimming holes and the chance to wade through soggy, moss-covered and leech-infested passages such as the one below. The section pictured underneath is known as the Black Hole of Calcutta. A cylindrical tunnel dropping 15m to the canyon floor, it’s a popular spot for abseilers.
From the weird world of religion. Not, as you might think, the official opposition to America's Ku Klux Klan, these Spaniards in niqabs are members of the oddly named "Real, Muy Ilustre y Antiquísima Cofradía de la Esclavitud de Jesús Nazareno y Conversión de Santa María Magdalena" - seen here participating in a Holy Week procession in Zaragoza.
Aerial view of the small town of Centuripe in Sicily - looking like it was built over a piece of ancient rock art.
I think I'd poop myself if I stumbled across this on a dark night - a raptor sculpture by Ricardo Breceda in Borrego Springs, California, please log in to view this image
Not really cheating - I should probably rename the thread to 'Weird and Wonderful World' or something similar. There'd be enough to keep the thread going for a decade or two...
Two things that don't often appear together - snow and desert. Here's one example - in the Monument Valley National Park in Utah.
A different view of our world - one apparently from Voyager 1 from 5.9 billion km away. How they can be sure is well beyond my comprehension.
Google maps of course, Voyager 1 is one of those vans that goes round taking photos of your house (I was in the pic of our old house!)
