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7 Amazing Things You Won’t Believe Actually Exist In Nature

1. Reflective Salt Flats in Bolivia

Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat coming in at 10,582 square kilometers (4,086 sq mi).

2. Giant Crystal Cave in Naica, Mexico

Photo by: National Geographic

Mexico’s Cueva de los Cristales (Cave of Crystals) is home to the largest natural crystal formations found anywhere in the world.

3. Pink Lake Hillier in Australia

The captivating pink lake is not a trick of the light, and it retains it’s hue when removed, but the origin of it’s bubble gum aesthetics remains a mystery the science community is still trying to solve.

4. Volcanic Lightning in Iceland

Photo by: Sigurdur Hrafn Stefnisso

This epic display of lightning in Iceland is what scientist call a “dirty thunderstorm.”

5. Frozen Air Bubbles in Abraham Lake

Photo by: Chip Phillips

Abraham Lake in Alberta Canada is home to a rare phenomenon that needs to be seen to believe. Trapped under it’s frozen surface, methane gas creeps its way up creating beautiful air bubbles as it freezes and melts and freezes and melts as the flammable element searches for its way out.

6. Spiderweb Cocooned Trees in Pakistan

Flickr: dfid

In 2010 massive flooding forced millions of spiders to seek shelter in the higher grounds of the tree tops, and over time the have created intricately beautiful webbed homes for themselves in the most peculiar of places.

7. Shimmering Shores of Vaadhoo Maldives

Photo by: Doug Perrine

This midnight light show on the shores of Vaadhoo, Maldives however unbelievable is not the result of an elaborate Photoshop. It is however the result of tiny marine microbes called phytoplankton washing up on the sand.

There are many types of phytoplankton that are known to have an ability called bio-luminescence which allows them to glow as a defensive mechanism to scare predators and lure bigger predators to eat the ones looking to eat them (Oh, the circle of life). When these plankton are agitated they let off their glow creating stars in the ocean as the waves ripple them to shore.