If someone described Eternal Flame Falls in Orchard Park, New York to you without showing pictures, you’d probably assume they’d been sampling some questionable mushrooms in the forest.
A waterfall with fire burning behind it sounds like the kind of thing that exists only in video games or fever dreams, yet here it is, real and accessible, just waiting to blow your mind.
Tucked away in Chestnut Ridge Park south of Buffalo, this geological curiosity represents nature at its most playfully contradictory.
Water cascades down layered rock formations in the way waterfalls have been doing since the dawn of time, nothing unusual there…