15 Places In Kentucky That’ll Make You Swear You’re On Another Planet

Kentucky's unique natural formations and surreal photographs make it feel like another planet.

It is not unusual to see a lot of beautiful photographs of Kentucky, because we are obviously favored by Mother Nature in the beauty department. However, there are also strange natural formations, places and events that can make you swear you’re on another planet. Each of these photographers captured a vivid image that can have you envisioning another time, space or even planet.

Here are 15 Kentucky photos that look like you are on another planet, or time zone:

15. Bunnies and clowns

This photo makes you feel like you have stepped into a twilight zone of some type in Kentucky.

14. Spirit of tobacco

This unusual photo of men working in tobacco captured their movements, turning them into "spirited" workers.

13. Kentucky underwater

This photo from the Cumberland River flood years ago makes Kuttawa look like a water world.

12. The farm

This surreal photo is just a beautiful farm in Cadiz captured in the right light to give it a creepy, horror film look.

11. Cloud power

Though it sounds like a hippie battle cry, the name signifies the incredible beauty of this amazing cloud roll that resembles a tidal wave in the sky.

10. Creepy alien?

Though this looks like an image out of the fog, or an alien flick… it is actually just a kid in a cloud of smoke on the 4th of July.

9. Spirits of Mammoth Cave

This surreal photo was taken outside Mammoth Cave and no tricks were used. The orb just wanted to be in the shot.

8. Strange trees

These trees growing by the water’s edge in Anderson County have developed an almost alien appearance.

7. Rock formation in Mammoth Cave

This other worldly looking rock formation is located in Mammoth Cave, which offers lots of surreal shapes and formations.

6. Drapery room

No curtains hang here, but it is the name given to one of the unique caves at Mammoth Cave.

5. Michael Poppins?

This photographer created a winter wonderland in Louisville.

4. Another planet

No, just another unusual cave in the famed Mammoth Cave system.

3. Red skies at night

Though it looks like this could have been taken on Mars, it is just a sunset on the Ohio River.

2. Frozen Niagara tour

This is a section of the frozen Niagara tour in Mammoth Cave. No water, just stalactite formations in unique patterns.

1. Forming stalactite

This stalactite is one of many unique formations found in Kentucky’s caves. Each one is somewhat unique, and have an almost alien world appearance.

As Kentuckians, we often recognize the unusual as just part of home. People who aren’t familiar with our national wonder, Mammoth Cave, or our gorgeous, flaming sunsets might feel they are on another planet when visiting. Realistically, we are all just visitors here for a time, so it is more fun to embrace the beauty, and the weird. Have you been anywhere in Kentucky that made you feel as if you were on another planet or in a different time?

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