Cities
Underground City of Derinkuyu
There are around 200 underground cities in the Cappadocia region of Turkey, but the most impressive of them all is the city of Derinkuyu. Here are the crazy stats: it reaches down an amazing 11...
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Socotra Island
Socotra, also called Soqotra, located between the Guardafui Channel and the Arabian Sea, is the largest of four islands of the Socotra archipelago. The territory is located near major shipping routes and is officially part...
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Nazca Lines
Introduction The Nazca Lines are a collection of giant geoglyphs—designs or motifs etched into the ground—located in the Peruvian coastal plain about 250 miles (400 kilometers) south of Lima, Peru. Created by the ancient Nazca...
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Cities
Palenque, The Key To Mayan Mystery
Palenque nestles in a lap of the landscape where steep mountains, lush with rainforest, meet low hills that give onto grassy plains and vast swamplands. There, in the Mexican state of Chiapas, a network of Read more…
Islands
Partridge Island
Partridge Island is a Canadian island located in the Bay of Fundy off the coast of Saint John, New Brunswick within the city’s Inner Harbour. The island is a provincial historic site and was designated Read more…
Places
STONEHENGE
A MYSTERY A huge circle of stones, some weighing as much as 50 tons, sits in the English countryside outside Salisbury. Known as Stonehenge, the Neolithic monument inspired Swiss author Erich von Däniken to suggest Read more…
Places
SACSAYHUAMÁN
The Sacsayhuaman (also Saksaywaman or Saqsawaman, meaning ‘Royal Eagle’) fortress-temple complex lies at the northern edge of the former Inca capital Cuzco. Constructed during the reign of Pachacuti (1438-1471 CE) and his successors, its massive, Read more…
Cities
TEOTIHUACÁN
The Mayan city in today’s Mexico has mysterious origins. Teotihuacán, meaning the “City of the Gods,” is a sprawling, ancient city in Mexico that’s best known for its pyramidal temples and astronomical alignments. Built more than 2,000 Read more…
Islands
Easter Island
Introduction Easter Island covers roughly 64 square miles in the South Pacific Ocean, and is located some 2,300 miles from Chile’s west coast and 2,500 miles east of Tahiti. Known as Rapa Nui to its Read more…