Glastonbury Abbey

This is Glastonbury Abbey in Sommerset, England. As you can see, it's still quite pretty despite having failed utterly in its overriding purpose of not become uninhabited, desolate ruins. That said, you should see the other buildings made in the 7th century. Oh wait - you can't!

Here is the website of the place. [Insert "website made before the invention of the internet" joke here.]
Another picture after the break.

Floating mountain ready to crush house

Here's a picture of Mount Aiguille in France, about to crush some guy's house! Another picture of it floating around after the break.

Hexagon Waterfall

Here's a hexagon waterfall in in Iceland. The rocks are clearly left like this by either a glacier or aliens. OR ARE THEY?

St Kilda

1886

Today

St Kilda is an island in the middle of nowhere off the coast of Scotland. It's been uninhabited since 1930, which as you can see in the two comparison photos above has made the place quite a lot more attractive.

The Lion of Lucerne

This monument in Switzerland commemorates the Swiss Guards that were killed by a bunch of Frenchies during the storming of Tuileries in 1792, probably for their crimes against fashion. The lion was carved in 1821-22 and the inscription roughly translates to "You damn Frenchies, you have killed me".

Stone Forest Pool

Here's a picture I found on Reddit. Thought it looked pretty cool and was made of stone, fulfilling my publication requirements. It's apparently a park called the "Stone Forest" in China, and although I'm a little confused I'm pretty it's apparently in Guilin and probably made by glaciers or something. Some overview pictures are after the break.

OMG INUIT STONE ART!

Time to get back to stone stuff that probably wasn't made by glaciers. If you're like me you probably assumed they didn't have stones at the North Pole, only pieces of ice of varying hardnesses. Turns out they can dig for rocks or something because I've found some Inuit (or Eskimo) art and it looks pretty cool. Some of my faves so far are after the break.

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La Tour Percee

This is a pretty cool rock outcrop in France. It's called La Tour Percee and it's located around here, in the Chartreuse mountains. Since I don't understand this geology at all, I'm gonna go ahead and attribute this to glaciers as well. After the break is a picture of it from another angle.

Balancing Stones

Found out about this little sucker today. It's in Garden of the Gods park in Colorado. Apparently there's more! Balancing rocks are found all over the world, most of them probably put in place by aliens or possibly glaciers. Incidentally, f'ing glaciers, how do they work?

See more balancing rocks after the break.

Stone bridges

Now if you're like me, you probably thought that bridges had to be made out of something lighter than water or they would sink. Apparently this is not true, as this lovely stone bridge demonstrates.

Irish stone walls, for sheep I think

Here's a picture of some stone walls in Inisheer on the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland. I took it from this guy's Wikipedia page. Nice pic Wikidrone20000!

House made of stone (singular)

Picture stolen from the Daily Mail.

And here's a house made out of one big stone! Pretty neat, although I'm not sure how comfortable it'd be after the novelty wore off. Maybe novelty is the wrong word for living in a rock. 

The pictures raise as many questions as answers. Why does it have a roof? Do they have electricity? What is that giant rock doing in the middle of a field anyway? Did a glacier put it there? God? A group of tractors? Do the occupants take offence when people say, "what have you been living under a rock or something?" Do they live there by choice or due to some ancient, multi-generational curse? Where do they pee?

Stone Stuff Rocks!

So I'm going to put stuff made of stone on this blog.
Stone buildings, stone art, stone stuff. Let's start off with a golden oldie: Petra.