The American West is world-famous for its distinctive landscapes and unique geological formations. Much of the West consists ...

Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland formed ~60 million years ago from cooling lava. The Wave in Arizona, USA, is Navajo Sandstone from the Jurassic period. Moeraki Boulders in New Zealand formed ~60 ...

The city of Colorado Springs has over 486,000 residents and lies at the eastern foot of the Rocky Mountains. The city sits at an elevation of 6,035 feet. It’s near the famous Pike’s Peak, which is a ...

Angela Nelson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning digital editor and storyteller who covered a variety of general interest stories on MNN (now part of Treehugger) from 2014-2019. Wave Rock is a well-known ...

Outside of "The Wizard of Oz" and the Old West charms of Dodge City, non-residents tend not to associate Kansas with much of anything. And fewer still are likely to pencil in a scenic vacation in ...