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Lava Tree State Monument

Pāhoa, HI

Tree trunks surrounded by a fast-moving nineteenth-century lava flow left behind hollow lava molds after the wood burned or decayed away. A short loop passes clusters of these strange upright forms, making volcanic processes visible at human scale.

Filed under roadside oddities: giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.

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Source: dlnr.hawaii.gov/dsp/parks/hawaii/lava-tree-state-monument/

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