8 of the most surreal landscapes in the world

Aerial top down view on Zhangye Rainbow mountains displaying colorful pattern

From early sci-fi writers to the marvels of modern CGI, humans have long crafted worlds of weirdness and wonder, but sometimes reality is even stranger than fiction.

Think psychedelic hillsides, a bright pink lake, a hellish 30 metre-deep fire pit and terrifyingly high pillars of rock.