The Smoking Hills
Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Sitting right on the Arctic Ocean, these red-striped rocks have been burning for centuries. First noticed by Irish explorer Robert McClure in the 1800s when he came to the Canadian arctic to find the remains of the Franklin Expedition, they’ve been a sight to see ever since.
This area is loaded with oil shales and brown coal, that tends to ignite when exposed to oxygen when the hills erode and burn further.