Alberta

Postcard courtesy of Stephanie Wong

Hoodoos look very bizarre. Visiting the hoodoo area where visitors can walk around these columns of rock and coming face to face with a dried-up water-eroded slopes, I thought it looked almost exactly like the gullies found on Mars!

Caption: Badlands, Hoodoo, Alberta, Canada
Strange, naturally carved columns of rock, with a harder layer on top and softer layers below, are formed by water erosion throughout the Canadian Badlands. Photo © Hilary Tarrant