06/11/2026
Meet Kummakivi, Finland’s “strange rock,” and it truly lives up to its name.
This massive boulder is about 23 feet long and weighs roughly 500 tons, yet it rests on a rounded slab of bedrock, touching it at only a tiny patch of about five square feet.
It was dropped here by retreating glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age, and it has stayed perfectly poised ever since.
Long before geologists explained it, local folklore claimed giants or trolls had placed it there.
Protected as a natural monument since 1962, Kummakivi still looks like one nudge could send it rolling.
