Zhangye Danxia, China

These rainbow mountains look like something out of a painting. The Danxia landforms, found

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in China's Gansu Province, are made of strips of red sandstone that were deposited over millions of years, like slices of a layered cake. But a word of caution: many online pictures of these hills are probably the result of image manipulation. Yes, we had a hard time believing that this insane mountain formation was actually real, because we haven't fallen down the rabbit hole. But, believe it or not, this technicolor range actually exists. The mountains are part of the Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park in China. Layers of different colored sandstone and minerals were pressed together over 24 million years and then buckled up by tectonic plates, according to the Telegraph. Here’s a photo showing some detail of the rich “layer cake” action going on