Hoodos: The Beautiful Fairy Chimneys That Appear To Be From Another Planet

Yehliu Cape: Although there are water-eroded hoodoos all throughout the Yehliu Cape of northern Taiwan, the centerpiece of this special place is generally considered to be the Queen's Head, a natural sandstone bust named for its supposed resemblance to Queen Elizabeth I. Part of the Daliao Miocene Formation in New Taipei, the hoodoo's thin "neck" shrinks by up to two thirds of an inch in circumference every year, which has many scientists and spectators wondering how long it will be able to support the 1.3-ton "head" that sits atop it.