10 Places With Geological Features That Shouldn’t Exist (5 of 6)

Lake Hillier

Most lakes stick to the usual color palette, but Lake Hillier in Western Australia decided to break that pattern. As you can see, this lake is bright pink. Not slightly rosy. Not pink only in certain weather conditions. Just full-on bubblegum pink all the time. Its strange color comes from extreme salinity and tiny microorganisms, especially algae that produce reddish pigments. Certain bacteria help intensify the effect. Sitting right beside the deep blue ocean, the lake looks so wildly saturated that it seems like it forgot to turn off the beauty filter.

Moeraki Boulders

There’s a beach in New Zealand, where enormous round stones sit on the sand like giant marbles left behind by colossal titans. The Moeraki Boulders are famous because rocks are not usually supposed to be this weirdly spherical. Some are more than six feet across, and many are covered in cracked patterns that make them look even more unnatural. They started forming millions of years ago as minerals gathered around tiny cores inside ancient seafloor mud. The growth happened evenly in all directions, which gave them their round shape. Later, erosion exposed them. They are neither carved nor extraterrestrial; however, if someone claimed they were, you would be inclined to believe them.