From a higher vantage point, looking down on the peaks and curves of the Badlands.
Hoodoos are as dramatic closeup -- where their columns reveal textures created over millennia -- as they are seen silhouetted against the sky.
The landscape just a short walk from the protected hoodoos site along Highway 10 is just as stunning as the better-known site. Here a lone rock sits surrounded by striated hills.
One of the most popular sites in the Alberta, Canada, badlands is the protected hoodoos site along Highway 10 (the Hoodoo Trail) east of Drumheller. Visitors can follow a trail around these unusual geological formations -- and might also want to wander along the gravel road and see what geological formations lie around the corner.
Badlands National Park, South Dakota:
For centuries humans have viewed South Dakota's celebrated Badlands with a mix of dread and fascination. The Lakota knew the place as "mako sica".