Chris Packham examines some of the weirdest natural events on the planet. With the help of footage taken by eyewitnesses and news crews, he unravels the facts behind each story ...

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But not all the world's strangest locations are thousands of years old or are created by nature. One of the weirdest places on Earth is a city located in Central Asia, only a few decades old.