Stunning Places

An impressive lake in the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland, an hour south of Dublin. Nearby there are many other sights in the mountain: various waterfalls, large boglands with sheep and streams, forests with wildlife, and historical places such as Glendalough, also other lakes. [Source]

Drakolimni (dragon lake) of Tymfi is an alpine lake in northwestern of Greece at Epirus region. According to local folktales the lakes used to be inhabited by dragons who fought each other by throwing pines and rocks and thus created the peculiar landscape and gave their names to the lake. [Source]

Lake Karachay, sometimes spelled Karachai, is a small lake in the southern Ural mountains in western Russia. According to a report by the Washington, D.C.-based Worldwatch Institute on nuclear waste, Karachay is the most polluted spot on Earth. The radiation level in the region near where radioactive effluent is discharged into the lake was 600 röntgens per hour (approximately 6 Sv/h) in 1990, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Natural Resources Defense Council, sufficient to give a lethal dose to a human within an hour. [Wiki]

Abraham Lake is an artificial lake on North Saskatchewan River in western Alberta, Canada. It was built on the upper course of the North Saskatchewan River, in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies. Abraham Lake has a surface area of 53.7 km2 (20.7 sq mi) and a length of 32 km (20 mi). Abraham Lake was created in 1972, with the construction of the Bighorn Dam. [Wiki]

Lake Hillier, is a lake on Middle Island, the largest of the islands and islets that make up the Recherche Archipelago, Western Australia. The colour is permanent, and does not alter when the water is taken in a container. The length of the lake is about six hundred metres. The lake is surrounded by a rim of sand and a dense woodland of paperbark and eucalyptus trees with a narrow strip of sand dunes covered by vegetation separating it to the north from the Southern Ocean. Despite the unusual hue, the lake exhibits no known adverse effects upon humans. From above the lake appears a solid bubble gum pink, but from the shoreline it looks more like a clear pink hue is in the water. [Wiki]

Briksdalsbreen is one of the most accessible and best known arms of the Jostedalsbreen glacier. The size of Briksdalsbreen depends not only on temperature, but is also strongly affected by precipitation. In the period from 1967 until 1997 the glacier expanded by 465 metres (1,526 ft) and covered the whole lake, with the glacier front ending at the lake outlet. [Wiki]