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Lost Tribes
Nazi graveyard left behind by a Third Reich expedition to the amazon
On a small island on a tributary of the River Jary in Brazil stands a nine-foot high wooden cross with what seems a very odd decoration: a swastika.
Even stranger is that on the cross it reads... »
Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries, Lost Tribes, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by
A perfect circle of twenty-four mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric time
Property developer Michael Bauman was in for a real surprise when he purchased a plot of land in downtown Miami in 1998. Bauman's plans for the land were seemingly simple: demolish a 1950-era... »
Lost Tribes, Incredible Ruins | Edited by anhie
The largest stone Moai on Easter Island
One of the first realizations one has about Easter Island is, it's not an archipelago. There are no other islands surrounding it. No, in all directions there is nothing but empty ocean for greater... »
Unusual Monuments, Strange Statues, Retro-Tech, Intriguing Environs, Disaster Areas, Rites and Rituals, Lost Tribes, Long Now Locations, Curious Places of Worship, Incredible Ruins, Outsider Architecture, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by LongNow, re_nakaba and others
Former utopian colony based on the belief that the Universe exists in a hollow sphere
Cyrus Reed Teed was an eclectic physician whose experiments in alchemy often involved dangerously high levels of electricity. In one such experiment in 1869, Teed was electrocuted so badly that he... »
Hoaxes and Pseudoscience, Lost Tribes, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by anhie
Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin
The Plain of Jars is a collection of large stone jars interspersed throughout the Xieng Khouang plain in the Lao Highlands. The stone structures are mostly made of sedimentary rock and, ranging... »
Lost Tribes, Incredible Ruins | Edited by anhie and dearpeter
Giant ancient line art, drawn in the Peruvian desert, so large the can only be fully seen from the sky
The Nazca lines are legendary. Stretching across 400 square miles of high arid plateau are drawings of hundreds of figures. They range from giant spiders to vast geometric shapes to enormous... »
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