People often dream of visiting other planets, and one of humanity’s biggest goals over the past 50 years has been exploring our galaxy and attempting to land both robots and eventually humans on other planets and moons in our solar system. Thanks to film and videogames, a ton of possible environments have been visualized, spurring on humanity’s imagination about other planets.
There are plenty of places on Earth that look other-worldly too, however. With jagged canyons, seemingly mystical geysers and hot springs, deep ocean trenches and other environmental features, Earth has some fascinating places for landscape photography.
Here, I’ve selected 30 of the most alien-looking landscape photographs from places around the world.
strange stones By Jens Kling
Alien landscapes.. By Edmondo Senator
Strange Landscape By Doug Roane
Strange Wave By Strange Wave
Alien landscapes By Edmondo Senatore
Alien Landscapes 2 by Edmondo
Return to Mars By Len Saltiel
Inhospitable By Gary McParland
landscape from an alien planet By Gunnar Helliesen
Castillo Acher By Gus Busselo
Strange Lands By WK Cheoh
Alien Sea by Freddie Ridge
Follow the Flow By Photonook
Bisti Towrs By Andrew Meilstrup
Dunluce Castle at Twilight By Gary McParland
Insignificants By Javier Camacho
Dendritic By Eugene B
Alien Landscape Color By Jonathan Talbot
Winter sunset By Arild Heitmann
alien landscape By Andy M
Alien Landing Pad by Mark Goff
Another Planet By Eugene Soroka
Twister By Jakub Polomski
on the path By acrux/Kowalkowski Rafal
Alien World by Yiming Hu
Iceland By Raymó
Micro Hills By Chris Heald
3 Cime di Lavaredo By Daniele Pantanali
Celestial Dance By Jeff Jessing