Underwater eruption!

For the first time ever, scientists were able to film a volcano erupting underwater. Because of the extreme pressure (at 4,000 feet below sea level!) they could get quite close to it. Crazy!

Video of it here:

and article about it here: CNN

The Vortex in Lake Peigneur

In the 1980s, a gulf oil drilling company was drilling a hole in a lake in Louisiana and just happened to drill into a big salt mine that was underneath. This basically opened a vortex that caused the lake to entirely empty into the mine, sucked in a large area of land around the lake, and make the gulf flow north onto land for two days in a giant 150 ft waterfall (the photo above). That would be a thing to see.

Read about it here: Damn Interesting
Or watch about it here: Youtube

Death Valley

The Milky Way Over Death Valley

Death Valley is a crazy place. Once at the bottom of a lake, it's now a below sea-level hot hot oven of a place. Read more on wiki here.

Death Valley

Parks Service Photo Gallery

Rocks mysteriously move around some of the mudflats, leaving trails behind them. These researchers have a theory for why: