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Tomigusuku, Okinawa, Japan
During World War II, Japanese naval forces in Okinawa, led by Rear Admiral Minoru Ota, built an elaborate underground headquarters, with hundreds of meters of connecting tunnels under a hill in... »
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This 1000 year old relic-filled cave monastery and UNESCO World Heritage Site also hosts an amazing micro-miniature museum
The Kiev Pechersk Lavra in Kiev, Ukraine is many things.
Also known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, first and foremost it is a a historic Orthodox Christian monastery, built on top of a... »
Miniatures, Microminiature art, Memento Mori, Relics and Reliquaries, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries, Curious Places of Worship, Subterranean Sites | Edited by Dylan
The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus
Egyptomania gripped Rome in the wake of the conquest of Egypt in 30 BC. Both massive original artifacts and inspired copies cropped up all over the city, but only two actual pyramids were known to... »
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In Greenwood Cemetery in Spokane Washington, there is a staircase that has the reputation of being haunted.
They say, if you walk up the stairs without any lights, when you reach the top... »
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Historic graveyard set against the barren Virginia City hills
Virginia City, home of Comstock Lode, the United States' first major discovery of a silver ore deposit in 1859, is also home to several captivating cemeteries.
Located side by side over many... »
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Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church
Atop a hill in the picturesque town of Saint-Bonnet-le-Château stands the Collegiate Church of Saint-Bonnet, a beautiful medieval church believed to have been built in the year 1400.
The church... »
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Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.
Longtime friend and famous lawman Wyatt Earp had this to say about John Henry "Doc" Holliday:
Doc was a dentist not a lawman or an assassin, whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom... »
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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... »
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The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats
The Protestants' graveyard, also known as the "non-Catholic cemetery" of Rome, is hidden behind the pyramid of Caius Cestius, in the Roman rione (district) of Testaccio.
Because Rome has always... »
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