Fingal's Cave is a hollow inside the Scottish island of Staffa that is characterized by massive, interlocking hexagonal ...

This video shows Kilt Rock and Mealt Falls on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. A narrow waterfall drops directly from high basalt sea cliffs into the ocean below, surrounded by dark vertical rock ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland features around 40,000 exposed polygonal columns of basalt in perfect horizontal sections.

This video shows a large wall of basalt columns rising from a grassy volcanic landscape in Iceland. The tall stone formations ...

In ancient times, strange rock formations that display a regular pattern of almost hexagonal sections were sometimes explained as the work of a supernatural stonecutter - maybe even the devil himself ...

The Giant's Causeway, the 173 acres of hexagonal basalt columns that hug the Antrim coast of Northern Ireland, has long been a source of wonder and mystery. How could nature have formed such perfect ...

This collection of basalt columns was recorded in a canyon north of Molokai, at a depth of just over a mile, according to Nautilus Live Ocean Exploration Trust. YouTube video screengrab Newly recorded ...

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