Impossible places that actually exist!

I never saw copyright.
But it is fine the same photos are on the internet.
I will simply replace with those.

 

Giants Causeway on the Northern Ireland coast is a magical landscape of basalt columns. Even without the legend of Finan McCool and the corresponding abutment in Scotland it’s really neat and we enjoyed scrambling around on the columns. As a side note basalt columns are very common here in Washington State….and there are some places the columns are small enough to use as fence posts.

 

1. It's around 50-60 million years old.

2. The rocks are believed to be the result of the crystallisation of molten lava extruding into the sea.

3. It's called 'The Giant's Causeway because according to legend, it was actually the work of Irish giant Finn McCool who created it in order to cross Scotland so he could go into battle against his enemy Benandonner.

4. It's actually made up of three rock outcrops - but the largest iconic one is the Grand Causeway.

5. There are over 40,000 basalt rocks that form the entirety of the formation.

6. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1986 and is Northern Ireland's only one.

7. It's currently the most popular tourist attraction in Northern Ireland and continues to draw in the crowds.

8. There are plenty of shipwrecks along the coast - and divers are often spotted swimming down in a bid to find buried treasure.

 

This is some Fortress of Solitude stuff. lol

 

Stonehenge - Wikipedia
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Was stonehenge built to learn if the sun was going away from us or coming to us?

 

stonehenge was a court of law, (ok, i may be making this up but it works for me), kind of like the druid's supreme court, where three dragons sat as judges,
and the druids were the other court functionaries. (or was it five dragons. i forget). long before rome came along and messed everything up, until picts,
wearing nothing but blue paint, called "wode" successfully made a habit of raiding roman incampments and liberating their weapons and armor.

but if the greeks hadn't had a tsuname to aid their overthrow of crete, history would have been very very different.

oh the druids lined everything up with sun moon and stars to prove their magical powers,
but it was also i think, one of those things that was done just to prove it could be,
a kind of ancient equivelant of our moon and mars landings.

getting those stones on boats without sinking the boats is what amazed me. (as with aegypt's pyramids)
moving and setting them up would be a simple matter of levers and lots and lots, many generations worth of lots and lots, of time.
(and the not so simple matter of organizing a labour force and keeping it together over all the generations, hundreds of years, it must have taken)

such stone circles were convergence and divergence points of lay lines, which had nothing to do with roman roads, though these sometimes followed them.
in chaco cannion in the u.s four corners southwest, there are also lay line "roads", in quotes, because going streight up and down the sides of mountains,
couldn't have been a very practical way of moving or hauling anything, but rather a from of reverence for ghosts and spirits.

well chaco cannion doesn't have stone circles, but itstead, many celistially alined, stone build cliff villages, of mostly rectangular stuctures, but built into the midst of these,
are circular ritual spaces called kivas.

oh and we also have some columnar basalt formations here in nevada where i live.

 

Scientists are very confused by the Baltic Sea Anomaly. Discovered in the dark depths of the Gulf of Bothnia, this is an underwater find that has long stoked debate. Some think that it’s a natural geological formation, whilst others insist it’s a sunken UFO. Either way, this is a strange find that continues to push the realms of possibility.

Treasure hunters combing the ocean floor for historic artifacts happened upon the Anomaly in June 2011. Known as the Swedish Ocean X team, they even produced a sonar image. But this is indistinct and so unclear that experts remain divided on what, exactly, it shows.

The most rational continue to argue that, whilst unusual, it is possible for volcanic rock to have settled in such a formation. But those pursuing a more far-fetched explanation are adamant this is evidence of life in Outer Space — even pointing out clear similarities in shape with Star Wars Millennium Falcon.

 

problem with cities was they accelerated population growth, not only beyond resources available locally, but then existing means of transporting them from further and further away.
some if not most decendents of "the anasazi" who built them, are widely and generally agreed to be the sequence of pueblo civilizations. there may also have been something like a kind of civil war involved at the time of the cities abondonment, or not long before, retreating to less accessable higher up and smaller cliff dwellings for defensive purposes. some of the other local indiginous cultures may very well be descendents or intermarried with descendents from that time. many of the shared roots of some indiginous cultures may have been motivated by desire to avoid repeating the mistake of cities, or at least the forming of them too far from a sufficient availability of resources to support them.

i'm not suggesting anything is entirely that simple, rather that these may be among the factors involved. there are a whole bunch of books i'd mention, but i never remember the names of any of them. my great fault. i sit in libraries and read all kinds of things that interest me, then never remember who wrote them, other then to note how close or distant they were from their source, or how early they were written. anyway, with "impossible" places, there are often tons and tons of stuff written about them, that most people, who only watch media and expect to learn all there is from it, have no idea even exists. best places to find things that are most likely to be useful, at least to me, are university libraries. not to many decades ago they used to welcome non-students who were interested. after 9-11 this seems to have become somewhat less the case. hopefully they will someday again.

in addition to scholarly works, there's a lot of fun stuff as well, which just needs to be taken for what it is. if its from an actual indiginous source, that's a kind of scholarly too, maybe even the most so of all. it not, well occasionally documentory media comes close. there was something called time team, that was about actual archiology and how its done.

anyway there were a couple of books just about the lay line 'roads' (in chaco cannion, there's tons of stuff about them in ireland and great brittan as well) that i stumbled accross in a local community college library.

only passed through once and have never been there myself. been to several "ghost towns" locally. including one that had been burnt down between one time i was there and the next. which annoys me no end that anyone would do that. one that became a mining site again, with modern methods that completely obliterated that it had ever been there. these were of course un"listed" and unprotected sites. unlike the well known ones that are likely to be mentioned.

oh here's another one i don't think has been mentioned yet, the "cart tracks" of malta.
natural formations?, results of ancient quarying opperations?, or possibly some combination of both.
some interesting ancient temple sites there too. and ancient is not a word i use for anything "a.d."

 

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nothing is impossible to exist, only to owe anything to what people tell each other to pretend about it.