stackyFACTSForget gradual slopes, this landmass simply decided to end abruptly. Mount Roraima is surrounded by vertical four-hundred-meter cliffs, making it look like a floating chunk of rock that was haphazardly dropped onto the continent by an indecisive creator.
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Evolution threw a giant party atop Mount Roraima and flatly refused to invite the lowlands. The sheer vertical cliffs prevent local animals from ever mixing…
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Up close, this iconic guardian is basically a giant mosaic. Christ the Redeemer is covered in six million tiny, hand-cut soapstone tiles, meaning an…
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These oversized ground squirrels have completely abandoned their natural foraging instincts in favor of panhandling. They stake out popular scenic overlooks,…
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Gravity feels more like a casual suggestion around the Zhangjiajie sandstone peaks. Towering stone columns shoot straight up from the forest floor, often…
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Finding random body parts in the barren wasteland is usually a bad sign. But the Hand of the Desert is just a massive sculpture rising out of the sand,…
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Sometimes water just gives up before finishing its journey. Plunging from a Venezuelan tabletop mountain, this waterfall is so absurdly high that the stream…
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