One thing we’ve discovered over and over again is that nature is always weirder than what we give it credit for. That’s why, for instance, some of the most staggering naturally occurring landscapes on Earth don’t look like they belong on Earth at all. They look like they were created in a lab, or beamed down to our world from a distant fold in the universe.

Tell us you wouldn’t think you’d been kidnapped by aliens if one day you woke up to see such a beauty …

Terraces in Japan

Lavender fields in France

National Park Hitachi in Japan

Bamboo forest in Japan

Salar de Uyuuni Lake Mirror in Bolivia

Japanese wisteria

Mount Roraima on the border of Brazil, Venezuela and Guyana

Tianjie mountain in China

Flower Fields Canola in China

Pink Lake in Senegal Retba

Blueberry forest in Belgium

Park Takinoue in Japan