Landscape outside of the village of Göreme in the Cappadocia region in Turkey. This bizarre landscape was formed from compacted volcanic ash called "t

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Landscape outside of the village of Göreme in the Cappadocia region in Turkey. This bizarre landscape was formed from compacted volcanic ash called "tuff" that smothered the land some 30 million years ago. Natural forces have since sculpted a wonderland of ridges, canyons and bizarre phallic protrusions known as fairy chimneys.

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