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The world is full of amazing sights, sounds and mysteries.
While some are spectacular examples of what Mother Nature is capable of, others are just plain weird.
Through the centuries people have wondered what caused them, giving rise to tales of UFOs, genies and entrances to hell.
In some instances, the mysteries behind these weird wonders remain unsolved.
But others can be explained by phenomenons that have captivated some of the finest scientific minds on the planet.
Here we examine a handful of Planet Earth’s strangest sites and examine everything top boffins have actually been able to tell us about them.
Well of Hell, Yemen
Officially called the Well of Barhout, this sinkhole in Yemen, which measures 100ft across and 357ft deep, has long been said to be the home of devils and genies, or even the gateway to the underworld.
Despite having sent a man to the moon and explored the depths of the oceans, only this month did cavers finally reach the bottom of the hole, battling darkness, low oxygen levels and noxious fumes.
They didn’t find any genies but only some snakes and dead animals.
Crooked Forest, Poland
In a quiet forest in western Poland are dozens of strangely identical crooked trees.
For years there have been various theories on what caused them to grow this way. Some say snowfalls bent the trunks or some sort of weird horizontal gravitational pull, maybe caused by a UFO landing.
The answer is more simple, but tragic. It is believed they were planted and then shaped while growing that way by foresters for ship building.
Sadly, the entire area was utterly devastated in World War Two, the nearby town razed to the ground and those who have the answers did not survive to tell them.
Fairy Circles, Namibia
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