Fact-based Odd Places
The Giant Eye in the Sahara Is Not a Crater
From space, a bull's-eye about 40 kilometres wide stares up out of the desert in Mauritania, and the way it formed is slower and stranger than any falling rock from the sky.
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New Zealand Has a Beach Scattered With Giant Stone Marbles
On a quiet stretch of the Otago coast, dozens of almost perfectly round boulders sit on the sand like marbles left by giants, and each one took millions of years to grow.
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Australia Has a Lake the Colour of Bubble Gum
On a small island off Western Australia sits a lake so pink it looks painted, and a glass of its water stays pink too, thanks to some very salty tiny residents.
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Chile Has Marble Caves Carved Out by a Bright Blue Lake
On the shore of Chile's biggest lake, the water has hollowed solid marble into chapels, tunnels and pillars with smooth swirling walls, and it has done it in only a few thousand years.
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The Philippines Has More Than a Thousand Hills That Turn Chocolate Brown
On the island of Bohol, well over a thousand round grassy hills rise from the fields like sweets on a tray, green for much of the year and brown as cocoa when the dry season comes.