Top 10 Most Unique and Unusual Places In The World

Here’s a list of most unique and unusual places in the world that we are probably not know yet. The Earth where we lives has many unusual places, both of the uniqueness and strangest. Earth is the third planet from the sun. There are many type who lives in the earth, besides humans. Here are the list of the unique and unusual places in the world.

1. Guaíra Falls, Brazil-Paraguay Border

There are so people think that Niagara Falls is the largest waterfalls in the world. Whereas Guaira Falls is the largest in the world with volume of waterfalls reached an average of 1.75 million cubic feet per second. Compare with Niagara Falls with only 70 000 cubic feet per second. Source Guaira Falls which located in frontier of Brazil-Paraguay, is the Parana river. In 1982, the Guaira waterfalls was built a dam to power plant named Itaipu Dam, and now it becomes the second largest dam and largest electricity producer in the world after Gorges Dam. Itaipu dam supplied 90 percent electricity to Paraguay, and 19 percent to Brazil, and also Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

2. Iceberg B-15, Antartica

Iceberg B-15 is the largest iceberg in recorded of history. Covers up to 3100 km, making it larger than Jamaica island. The giant iceberg occurs due to fracture of Ross Ice Shelf in March 2000. Then in 2003, iceberg B-15 was split again into several pieces, one of the largest is called the B-15a drifting to north, eventually crushed into the glacier in 2005, leaving a fracture along the 8 km. It makes a big change in the map of Antarctica and the demands must be revised (map).

3. Don Juan Pond, Antartica

the Dead Sea is the place which have the highest salt content. The Dead Sea is famous in the world for its salt content is very high. Based on the research, the high salt content of sea water can be a medical therapy. No wonder that in many built spa therapy near dead sea, especially beauty beauty and health therapy. But dead sea is not the saltest in the world. Precisely in the Antarctic, excatly in Don Juan Pond, is a lake with the highest salt content in the world. The comparison when juxtaposed with the sea in general, Don Juan Pond 18 times more saltier than normal seawater, when compared to the Dead Sea, Don Juan Pond 8 times more salty.

4. Rotorua, New Zealand

Rotorua is a seaside town in the south of the lake with the same name. Exactly in the Bay Plenty, North Island of New Zealand. The uniqueness of the area is the number of pools of hot water sources, especially Pohutu Geyser at Whakarewarewa, and mud boiling mud. The area became a unique and interesting so that there are many tourists visit there.

5. 83-42, Greenland

Unusual and Unique, But 83-42 is believed to be the only existing parcels of the land in the north. It’s only ‘tiny’ indeed the size about 35 mx 15 m and height 4 m. When viewed from above, like only a speck of land surrounded by broken pieces of ice. Unique! When the north pole is covered by ice, yet theland is not. The uniqueness of 83-42 was found in 1998.

6. Socotra, Republic of Yemen Socotra

Socotra is the oddest and most unique place in the world. Almost all of there are seem strange, strating from the shape of the tree and its environment, it’s no wonder that there are people called Socotra is located in the Republic of Yemen as one of the alien nest in the world. It’s very isolated, dry climates other than the other. The strange can be causing plant life or anything on there grew a strange look. Just call it as the famous plants like Dragon’s Blood Tree is strange, very unusual shape, looks like umbrella. The tree produces red sap. There are also native animals exist, such as birds, spiders and other native animals. Not to mention the rocky reef as well, the shape is not common and there is only on the island. With all the strangeness content of the island, would not be surprised if Socotra, an island at sea arab, entered in the Heritage of World Heritage.

7. The Great Dune of Pyla, France

As we know that Europe has no deserts, at least there only are best of mediocre. But this assumption is wrong. Europe has a unique Pyla, the length of 3 km, width of 500 m and height of 100 meters. It is very steep sand hill overlooking the forest part. This place is famous for being the place of paragliding activity. Besides the uniqueness of the dunes, which is also amazing is the surrounding scenery from the heights where we could see the sea and forest. It’s because the sand hill is much higher than the forest, so that the sand dunes that we could see it all.

8. Meteor Crater, Crater USA

Meteor is a crater formed by meteorite fall. the location is about 43 miles (69 kilometers) east of Flagstaff, near Winslow in the northern Arizona desert of the United States. The place was called Meteor Crater, because the location is close to a post office. Meteor Crater was allegedly formed since 50 000 years ago in the Pleistocene era when the local climate became more cool and wet. At that time there was a vast grassland and forests, inhabited by mammoths wool, mashed giant lemurs, and camels. Maybe it can not yet habitation by humans. The meteor that fallen contains the nickel and make a crater 50 meters wide.

9. Mount Roraima, Venezuela, Brazil and Guyan

Mount Roraima is incredibly beautiful place. The mount stone shaped like a hood is unique because the table was in the clouds. Height of 400 meters. The only way to reach the peak of the roof is to climb the table ladder track that is already provided by the government of Venezuela. Another way that is not usually recommended is done by rock climbers. There, the rain fell almost every day, sweep over plants vines situated on the roof. As a result, the roof is a unique mountain, because the net than anything, or as ‘bare table’.

10. The Door To Hell, this Turkmenistan

The place is probably all know, at least have read about or seen the pictures. It’s no wonder because the natural phenomenon unique in Turkmenistan is spelled out. People called it ‘the Gate of Hell” because the 70-meter-wide crater it out fires continuously since last 35 years. Starting from 1971 in which the geologist member’s area to find the mine gas. What happened next is a burst of flame from under a continuous, even swallowed all their equipment. There are no one dared og geologists to go down into the crater it was poisonous.




After see the list of the most unique and unusual places in the world above, do you interested to visit one of these places? Guaranteed that you will get a new experience that you can forget in you life.