Almost 60 million years ago, a series of natural events—including volcanic eruptions, erosion, glacial movement, and sea level rise—created Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway: a coastal area made of ...

Somewhere in the world, you’ll find a place that looks lifted straight from the pages of an ancient legend. Abutting deep blue waters, tens of thousands of interlocking basalt columns (the remnant of ...

Visitors to the Giant’s Causeway, the world-famous tourist attraction in Northern Ireland, are being urged not to indulge in the popular ritual of wedging coins in between the site’s iconic stones. UK ...

Many of the coins are from the United Kingom, but some are from as far away as the United States and Asia. National Trust via Facebook Small coins are causing giant problems at one of Northern Ireland ...

Coins wedged into the basalt rock columns of Giant's Causeway by tourists are causing damage and have prompted a warning from the UK's National Trust, the conservation charity which protects and cares ...

Thousands of years ago as lava was forced to the surface it cooled in mostly hexagonal shapes forming columns. This is a view showing various heights of the columns. The Giant's Causeway is on the ...