12 Most Mysterious Places Around The World

Nature has a mind of its own. From erupting volcanos to landscape land, and fantastically deep oceans, its creativity knows no boundaries.

Through searching, sometimes we’re able to acknowledge, how does it work? But there are times when the full truth simply can’t be found.

As time goes on, Mother Nature continues to be a fascinating mystery. Here, let’s take a look at 12 most phenomenal places around the world.

1. Pink Lake Hillier, Australia

Lake Hillier is a saline lake on the edge of Middle Island, Australia. The most notable feature of the lake is its pink, vibrant color. The vibrant color is permanent and does not alter when the water is taken in a container. The pink color is considered to be due to the presence of the organism Dunaliella salina.  Additionally, this body of water is extremely salty—just as salty as the Dead Sea.

An observer Flinders Peak described the lake as follows “In the north-eastern part was a small lake of a rose color, the water of which, as I was informed by Mr. Thistle who visited it, was so saturated with salt that sufficient quantities were crystallized near the shores to load a ship. The specimen he brought on board was of a good quality, and required no other process than drying to be fit for use”.

Hillier Lake is quite small, its length is 600 meters and its width is no more than 250 meters. Swimming in the lake's water is safe and fun but impossible to do for normal tourists as the lake can't be visited.

Pink Lake Hillier, Australia

2. Bermuda Triangle (Devil’s Triangle)

Bermuda Triangle is a loosely-defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean, roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico where dozens of ships and airplanes have disappeared. The area is known for extremely violent and unexpected storms, which build up and dissipate quickly.

Unexplained circumstances surround some of these accidents, the planes were never found. Other ships and planes have seemingly vanished from the area in good weather without even radioing distress messages.

Popular culture has attributed various disappearances to the paranormal or activity by extra-terrestrial beings. Documented evidence indicates that a significant percentage of the incidents were spurious, inaccurately reported, or embellished by later authors. The Bermuda Triangle does not appear on any world maps, and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names does not recognize the Bermuda Triangle as an official region of the Atlantic Ocean.

Bermuda Triangle, Miami, USA 

3. Devil’s Sea (Dragon’s Triangle)

  The Devil's Sea is a region of the Pacific, south of Tokyo, Japan. It’s sometimes considered as a paranormal location, though the veracity of these claims has been questioned. Since the 1940s, scores of gigantic ships have mysteriously vanished in these cruel seas. Many of them were lost without sending even radioing distress messages, leaving no clue as to their fate.

Research explores natural environmental changes, as the cause of such controversial anomalies in the Dragon's Triangle. One of these explanations is the vast field of methane hydrates present on the bottom of the ocean in the Dragon's Triangle area. These gas eruptions can interrupt buoyancy and can easily sink a ship, leaving no trace of debris. Another explanation for this "paranormal" activity could be the undersea volcanoes that are very common in this area.

In 1955, Japanese government sent Investigational crew to the sea for investigating unexplained ship losses, but this ship vanished as well, after the incident, Japanese authorities have labeled the sea as a danger zone. And Pacific Ocean's deadliest enigma.

Devil’s Sea, south of Tokyo, Japan

4. The Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt

The Great Egyptian Pyramid is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact. According to historians, the Great Pyramids were built somewhere around 3000 BC. There are three pyramids at Giza pyramid complex of which the Great Pyramid of Khufu is the biggest.

It’s believed, the pyramids were built as tombs for the Egyptian Dynasties, and was constructed over a 20-year period. The three enormous pyramids situated at Giza outside of Cairo were built by King Khufu, his son, and his grandson in the Fourth Dynasty.

One of the biggest mysteries about the Egyptian pyramids is the construction techniques used to erect them. The incredible feat of the Egyptians is all the more impressive when taking into consideration that over 2.3 million blocks of limestone and granite blocks were used to build the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Pyramids Giza, Cairo, Egypt.

5. Easter Island Moʻai, Chile

Easter Islan heads (Rapa Nui) are carved giant statues, centuries ago from volcanic rock at a quarry a mile away. One of the most iconic elements of Rapa Nui culture is the massive moai – the huge stone sculptures that represented the faces of worshipped ancestors.

The bodies are buried underneath the ground with only the face and shoulders above ground. All face inward from the coastline to symbolize protection for everyone.

There is believed to have been a thriving population of a few thousand living on the island for many years. However, after devastating civil wars, epidemics, slave raids, famine and deforestation, there were just 111 people remaining by 1877. Today there are around 8,000 people living on the island, and almost half consider themselves indigenous of Easter Island.

    Easter Island Moʻai, Chile

6. Blood Falls, Antarctica

Blood Falls is natural—not supernatural—phenomenon, it is a liquid outflow at the snout of Taylor Glacier in East Antarctica. The reddish deposit was found in 1911 by the Australian geologist Griffith Taylor, who first explored the valley that bears his name. The Antarctica pioneers first attributed the red flow color to red algae, but later it was proven to be due to iron oxides.

A buried saltwater reservoir is partly responsible for the discoloration, which is home to a thriving community of chemosynthetic bacteria—much like those found near hydrothermal vents on the deep-ocean floor.

The more soluble ferrous ions initially are dissolved in old seawater trapped in an ancient pocket remaining from the Antarctic Ocean when a fjord was isolated by the glacier in its progression during the Miocene period, some 5 million years ago when the sea level was higher than today.

Outflow Blood Falls, Antarctica

7. The Skeleton Lake, India

Roopkund is a remote lake high in the Indian Himalaya, It’s widely known for the hundreds of ancient human skeletons found at the edge of the lake. The skeletal remains more visible at its bottom when the snow melts. Remnants belonging to more than 800 people have been found.

Studies had suggested that the people who died at Roopkund were of South Asian ancestry, and radiocarbon dates from around the site cluster at 800 A.D

 People in the villages believe that the mystery goes back to King of Kanauj, Raja Jasdhaval, with his pregnant wife, Rani Balampa, their servants, a dance troupe and others went on a pilgrimage to Nanda Devi shrine, and the group faced a storm with large hailstones, from which the entire party perished near Roopkund Lake.

The Skeleton Lake, Uttarakhand, India

8. Dead sea, Middle East

The Dead Sea is a salt lake in Middle East, It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River. It’s surface and shores are 430.5 metres below sea level, it is one of the world's saltiest bodies of water,it’s nearly 10 times as salty as the ocean. It has a density of 1.24 kg/litre, which makes swimming similar to floating.

The sea is called "dead" because its high salinity prevents macroscopic aquatic organisms, such as fish and aquatic plants, from living in it, though minuscule quantities of bacteria and microbial fungi are present.

People have visited the Dead Sea for thousands of years to experience its unique healing properties and to float in its dense, buoyant waters. The “Salt Sea” is even mentioned in the Bible.

Dead sea, Middle East

9. Door to Hell, Turkmenistan

The Darvaza gas crater also known as the Door to Hell or Gates of Hell is a natural gas field collapsed into a cavern in Darvaza, Turkmenistan. The story behind how it came into existence has been sort of shrouded in mystery, and there's no other place like it on Earth.

In November 2013, explorer and storm chaser George Kourounis, on an expedition found out that some bacteria living at the bottom that are very comfortable living in those high temperatures, and the most important thing was that they were not found in any of the surrounding soil outside of the crater.

The Turkmen government hopes that the crater will become a popular tourist attraction. The surrounding area is also popular for wild desert camping.

Door to Hell, Darvaza, Turkmenistan

10. Kawah Ijen, Indonesia

Kawah Ijen is a group of composite volcanoes located in East Java, Indonesia. Where dazzling, electric-blue fire can often be seen streaming down the mountain at night. The glow is the light from the combustion of sulfuric gases. which emerges from cracks at temperatures up to 600 °C.

The Ijen volcano complex has some of the highest levels of sulfur in the world. This dense collection of the gas, when exposed to oxygen and lit by the molten hot lava burns blue. Unlike regular volcanoes whose bright red lava is visible in the day, Kawah Ijen's blue burning flames can only be seen at night.

The flames can be up to five meters (16 feet) high; some of the gas condenses to liquid and is still ignited. Eruptions from Ijen are very hazardous because of the risk of the lake draining to form catastrophic lahars.

Kawah Ijen Crater Lake is green because of the hydrochloric acid in the water.

The blue flame from Kawah Ijen volcano, Indonesia

11. Great Blue Hole, Belize

The Great Blue Hole is a giant marine sinkhole off the coast of Belize. It’s almost perfectly circular in shape, measuring 300 meters across and 108 meters deep. Which makes it the deepest sea hole in the world.

It’s one of the top five scuba diving sites in the world. French explorer Jaques Cousteau—led an expedition to the bottom of the Great Blue Hole in December of 2018.During the trip, his team conducted over 20 dives with the aim of creating a 3D sonar map.

Jaques, also commented “When they finally reached the bottom, it was completely dark, but the equipment on board allowed them to see their surroundings in great detail. They were able to view never-before-seen stalactites in addition to unidentifiable tracks—leading to speculation as to what could have caused them. With on-site mapping complete, the team is now working to finish the final map, which they will then share with the Government of Belize and the scientific community”

Great Blue Hole, Belize

12. Danakil Depression, Ethiopia

The Danakil Depression is the northern part of the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia, a geological depression that has resulted from continental drift of three tectonic plates in the Horn of Africa.

The Danakil Depression is the hottest place on Earth in terms of year-round average temperatures. It is also one of the lowest places on the planet (100 m below sea level), and without rain for most of the year. The hot springs in the Danakil Depression are home to microorganisms called extremophiles, which as the name suggests live in extreme conditions.

Beyond its fascinating geology, the Danakil holds the keys to some of biology’s most profound questions. In 1974, researchers found the remains of ‘Lucy’ in the Danakil Depression, an early ancestor of modern humans dating back 3.2 million years.

Ethiopia’s most active volcano Erta Ale -(also called Smoking Mountain’ in the Afar language)

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