The Island of the Dolls in Mexico is utterly surreal. Picture: Flickr Zen Skillicorn
THE WORLD is home to many surreal places, where colours are not what they should be and rock formations form shapes that you can see nowhere else.
A Quora user recently took to the question-and-answer website to ask: “What are the most surreal places to visit?”
Here are some of the most incredible places they discussed.
QUINTA DA REGALERA AND THE INITIATION WELLS, PORTUGAL
Quinta da Regaleira is an estate located near the historic centre of Sintra, Portugal. The large grounds surrounding the estate contain an extensive and enigmatic system of tunnels. The Initiation Wells are two wells on the property that better resemble underground towers lined with stairs. These wells were used for ceremonial purposes that included Tarot initiation rites.
The Initiation Wells of Quinta Da Regaliera are a pair of wells that go well below the ground level. Picture: Stijn van Dongen
SALAR DE UYUNI, BOLIVIA
Salar de Uyuni, amid the Andes in southwest Bolivia, is the world’s largest salt flat. It’s the legacy of a prehistoric lake that went dry, leaving behind a desertlike landscape of bright-white salt, rock formations and cacti-studded islands.
Plenty of salt here. Picture: Patrick Nouhailler
A train going nowhere at Salar de Uyuni. Picture: Flickr Patrick Nouhailler
GREAT BLUE HOLE, BELIZE
The Great Blue Hole in Belize is world wide known as one of the greatest diving sites. The almost perfect circular hole is part of the Lighthouse Reef and is 450 meters deep.
An incredible site. Picture: Flickr Eric Pheterson
THE WAVE, ARIZONA, USA
The Wave is a sandstone rock formation located in Arizona, United States near its northern border with Utah. Australia has it’s very own wave rock located in Western Australia. The Aussie Wave Rock is a natural rock formation that is about 14m high and around 110m long. It forms the north side of a solitary hill, which is known as “Hyden Rock”.
This is surreal. Picture: Flickr Greg Mote
MO’YNOQ, UZBEKISTAN
One Quora user wrote that they believe Mo’ynoq is the most surreal place on earth.
“The sea disappeared, leaving a tiny community that includes an armada of ships ... sitting all over town on dry, desert-like land. Lots of big, rusted old ships scattered around like something the aliens left behind in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
An odd looking place. Picture: Geoffrey Watson
Mo’ynoq, Uzbekistan #Uzbekistan #world http://pic.twitter.com/9JisszMzJH
— Thomas Roth (@roth_wm) January 22, 2016
ISLAND OF THE DOLLS, MEXICO
The Island of the Dolls sits in the canals south of Mexico City and is the current home of hundreds of terrifying, mutilated dolls.
Mexico’s Island Of The Dolls Is Home To 1500 Mutilated, Hanging Dolls http://t.co/5htbWoW4Tn #mexico #island #haunted http://pic.twitter.com/8x5FRcjF88
— HEXAPOLIS (@_Hexapolis) August 22, 2015
This place is spooky. Picture: Flickr Zen SkillicornSource:Flickr
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