Gateway to Hell in Bohemian Paradise

Two to three million years ago, the continent of Pangea began to split and a large part of Europe started to dip below the sea level.

This was around the time a meteor hit the planet and wiped out most of its life, and when the southern and eastern shores of this country were caressed by the ocean. Rain water from the interior would bring sediment to the oceanside, and the continent continued dropping until the ocean started encroaching inwards from the northwest, until as much as one third of the country, mostly Moravia, was under water. The ocean brought in its own sediment, a lot of which was soon-to-be extinct lifeforms eventually depositing the matter making up the sandstone structures we see today (layers of the sandstone structures deposited over different periods and some flood planes reaching as far as France).

At present, Cesky Raj is the largest unified natural preserve in the country, hosting bountiful forests and rare fauna - a haven for the recreational tourist.