stackyFACTSDriving along the Romantic Road in Bavaria leads you directly into a cosmic crime scene from fifteen million years ago.
Driving along the Romantic Road in Bavaria leads you directly into a cosmic crime scene from fifteen million years ago. The town of Nördlingen was unwittingly built inside the Ries impact crater using local stone that was shocked into millions of microscopic diamonds during the asteroid's explosive arrival. The residents literally constructed their medieval churches and quiet homes out of glittering extraterrestrial shrapnel.
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