Halekala Crater (Hawaii) 4

Halekala means "House of the Sun" in Hawaiian.The rim of the crater stands 10,000 feet above sea level.In Polynesian Mythology.it is associated with the Trickster God Maui,who roped in the Sun when it passed by too quickly.Within the hollowed out crater is 19 square miles of sacred ground.It is big enough to contain Manhattan.Mark Twain made the climb and camped out to watch the sunrise in 1907,and he claimed it was "The sublimest spectacle" he'd ever witnessed.It may also have been the burial place of Hawiian Chiefs.