Inland pillars, towers, tors and clusters of strangely shaped rock left standing where softer material has weathered away around harder layers. A landform belongs here when its cited article describes pillars, towers or a field of eroded sandstone, granite or conglomerate rocks. It excludes coastal stacks, natural arches and the hoodoo fields kept in their own subcategory. Many are tourist sites with local legends, but membership follows the shape and the erosion the article describes, not the folklore attached to it.
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Lena Pillars (Wikipedia)
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The Lena Pillars (Russian: Ле́нские столбы́, romanized: Lenskiye Stolby; Yakut: Өлүөнэ туруук хайалара, Ölüöne Turūk Khayalara) are a natural rock formation along the banks of the Lena River in far eastern Siberia.
Manpupuner rock formations (Wikipedia)
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The Manpupuner rock formations (Man-Pupu-Nyor; Mansi: Мань-Пупыг-Нёр [manʲ.pupiɣ noːr], literally ’Small Idol Mountain’; Komi: Болвано-Из [bolvano iz], literally ’Idol Stone’) are a set of 7 stone pillars located west of the Ural Mountains in the Troitsko-Pechorsky District of the Komi Republic.
Chambers Pillar (Wikipedia)
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Chambers Pillar (Aboriginal name Idracowra or Etikaura) is a sandstone formation some 160 km (100 mi) south of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Đavolja Varoš (Wikipedia)
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Đavolja Varoš (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђавоља варош, lit. "Devil's Town") is a rock formation consisting of about 200 earth pyramids or "towers", located in southern Serbia on the Radan Mountain, in the municipality of Kuršumlija.
Babele (Wikipedia)
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The name comes from some mushroom shaped rock formations, the result of erosion and varying hardness of the rock layers.
Belogradchik Rocks (Wikipedia)
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The Belogradchik Rocks (Bulgarian: Белоградчишки скали, Belogradchishki skali) are a group of strangely shaped sandstone and conglomerate rock formations located on the western slopes of the Balkan Mountains (Stara Planina) near the town of Belogradchik in northwest Bulgaria.
Ciudad Encantada (Wikipedia)
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The Ciudad Encantada (English: Enchanted City) is a geological site near the city of Cuenca, in the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, in which the erosive forces of weather and the waters of the nearby Júcar river have formed rocks into distinctive and memorable shapes.
Phae Mueang Phi (Wikipedia)
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Phae Mueang Phi (Thai: แพะเมืองผี, pronounced [pʰɛ́ʔ mɯ̄a̯ŋ pʰǐː]) is a place with original rock formations in the Phi Pan Nam Range, Thailand.
Al Naslaa (Wikipedia)
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It is a large sandstone rock split neatly down the middle into two parts, both balanced on small pedestals.
Cerro de Arcos (Wikipedia)
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The Cerro de Arcos (English: Hill of arches) is a windswept rock formation in the high páramo of the Ecuadorian southern sierra.
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