Pigeon Key has been abandoned twice: first by a devastating hurricane on Labor Day 1935 that killed the vast majority of its road - and railroad-building inhabitants, and again in 1982 when a new... »

Anomalous Islands, Ghost Towns, Follies and Grottoes, Incredible Ruins | Submitted by littlebrumble

Solovki, or Solovetsky Islands as they are officially known are a tiny archipelago hidden in the most remote corner of Europe, in the far north of the continent, in Onega Bay of White Sea. Despite... »

Anomalous Islands, Crime and Punishment, Curious Places of Worship | Submitted by stanestane

Juan Ponce de Leon first stumbled upon this stretch of islands in 1513, back when they were nothing more than clusters of coral inhabited by sea turtles. Upon his discovery, de Leon named the... »

Watery Wonders, Anomalous Islands, Fascinating Fauna, Architectural Oddities, Incredible Ruins | Submitted by anhie | Updated by ShaneStringer

Your grandma is right. The bananas that you can buy today in your local supermarket are not as sweet as the ones that she ate in her childhood. There are many types or "cultivars" of any given... »

Anomalous Islands, Extraordinary Flora, Natural History, Unique Collections, Instruments of Science, Long Now Locations, Horticultural Marvels, Repositories of Knowledge, Subterranean Sites | Submitted by stanestane

The story of Moses parting the Red Sea in order to save the Israelites from the Egyptians is well-known. South Koreans have a similar story. Their version is that the Island of Jindo was attacked... »

Natural Wonders, Watery Wonders, Anomalous Islands, Geological Oddities, Eccentric Homes | Submitted by Dylan | Updated by michelle

Erected in the 1850s to prevent the Bermuda Triangle from disappearing merchant ships, the 152-foot tall Great Isaac Lighthouse has become more of a participant in the area's mysteries than... »

Watery Wonders, Anomalous Islands, Incredible Ruins | Submitted by littlebrumble | Updated by Annetta

For a place known as "the loneliest place on earth" a surprising number of people have tried to claim it as their own. An uninhabited Arctic island halfway between South Africa and Antarctica,... »

Anomalous Islands | Submitted by cathar

Known as the country that ate itself, Nauru is, along with the islands of Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati and Makatea in French Polynesia, one of three big "phosphate rocks" of the Pacific.... »

Anomalous Islands, Disaster Areas | Submitted by stanestane | Updated by cobaltbluetony

In 1938, four hundred and nine Rhesus Macaque monkeys were dropped off on Cayo Santiago. Today, known as Monkey Island, the nine hundred and fifty descendants of those founder monkeys run free on... »

Natural Wonders, Anomalous Islands, Fascinating Fauna | Submitted by Dylan

Off the shore of Brazil, almost due south of the heart of São Paulo, is a Ilha de Queimada Grande. The island is untouched by human developers, and for very good reason. Researchers estimate that... »

Anomalous Islands, Fascinating Fauna | Submitted by Ushanka | Updated by tiemposbuenos