Bunda Cliffs, Australia

The Bunda Cliffs are part of a larger scarp of the Eucla Basin that spreads across the south eastern corner of Western Australia and the far western part of South Australia. The cliffs, which are some 60 to 120 metres high and sheer, can be viewed from several viewing points along the Eyre Highway east of Eucla and west of Nullarbor roadhouse. The Bunda cliffs extend for around 100 km along the Great Australian Bight near its northern extremity and are close to the Nullarbor Plain in a very sparsely settled area of Australia. The same formation can be seen from Eucla to Madura.

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Latrabjarg Bird Cliff, Iceland

Latrabjarg, is located in Iceland. It is Europe's largest bird cliff, 14km long and up to 440m high. The cliffs are home to millions of birds, including puffins, northern gannets, guillemots and razorbills. It is vital for their survival as it hosts up to 40% of the world population for some species e.g. the Razorbill.

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Etretat Cliffs

Etretat is a small coastal village best known for its cliffs, including three natural arches and the pointed "needle". Two of the three famous arches are seen from the town, the Porte d'Aval, and the Porte d'Amont. The Manneporte is the third and the biggest one, and cannot be seen from the town.

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Devils Tower , Wyoming

Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion or laccolith in the Black Hills near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises dramatically 386 meters above the surrounding terrain and the summit is 1,559 meters above sea level. In recent years, about 1% of the Monument's 400,000 annual visitors climb Devils Tower, mostly using traditional climbing techniques. Devils Tower is United States National Monument since September 24, 1906.

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Painted Hills, Oregon

Painted Hills located in Wheeler County, Oregon. It is one of the three units of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. Painted Hills is named after the colorful layers of its hills corresponding to various geological eras, formed when the area was an ancient river floodplain. The black soil is lignite that was vegetative matter that grew along the floodplain. The grey coloring is mudstone, siltstone, and shale. The red coloring is laterite soil that formed by floodplain deposits when the area was warm and humid. 

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Yellowstone Falls, Wyoming, USA

Yellowstone Falls consist of two major waterfalls on the Yellowstone River, within Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States. As the Yellowstone river flows north from Yellowstone Lake, it leaves the Hayden Valley and plunges first over Upper Yellowstone Falls and then a quarter mile (400 m) downstream over Lower Yellowstone Falls, at which point it then enters the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, which is up to 1,000 feet deep.

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Kalahari Desert

The Kalahari Desert meaning "thirst land" or "thirsty land" is a large semi-arid sandy savannah in southern Africa. It extends 900,000 square kilometres, covering much of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa.

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