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• November 24, 2010 brittmarie033 liked Catacombes de Paris
  

  Paris, France

  Catacombes de Paris

  The Catacombs hold secrets much stranger than the bones stacked within them

  In 2004, Parisian police were assigned to do a training exercise in a previously uncharted part of the Catacombs of Paris beneath the Palais de Chaillot. Entering the catacombs through a drain,... »

  Memento Mori, Ossuaries, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries, Subterranean Sites | Edited by CPilgrim, Dylan and 6 others

• November 24, 2010 brittmarie033 liked Longleat Hedge Maze
  

  Longleat Hedge Maze

  The longest hedge maze in the world

  Added to the historic grounds in 1975, the Longleat Hedge Maze is the largest of several mazes on the property. The maze is constructed of more than 16,000 English yews and is the longest (but not... »

  Horticultural Marvels, Mazes | Edited by Annetta

• November 24, 2010 brittmarie033 liked Labyrinthos Caves
  

  Greece

  Labyrinthos Caves

  Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

  Ancient Greek myth tells the tale of King Minos constructing an elaborate maze to contain the ghastly product of his wife’s adulterous bestiality: the flesh-eating, bull-man hybrid known as the... »

  Curious Caves, Cultures and Civilizations , Mazes, Subterranean Sites | Edited by littlebrumble

• November 24, 2010 brittmarie033 liked Blue Grotto (Grotta Azzurra)
  

  Blue Grotto (Grotta Azzurra)

  The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius

  "Instantly we were in a vast vault, where all gleamed like ether. The water below was like a blue-burning fire, lighting up the whole. All around was closed in: but, beneath the water, the little... »

  Watery Wonders, Curious Caves | Edited by Annetta

• November 24, 2010 brittmarie033 liked Villa Pisani Labirinto
  

  Villa Pisani Labirinto

  A complex nine layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian Doge's playground

  Local lore holds that the hedge maze at Villa Pisani is so challenging, Napoleon was lost in it when he lived in the villa, and Hitler and Mussolini were too chicken to go into it at all. The... »

  Mazes | Edited by Annetta and Dylan

• November 24, 2010 brittmarie033 liked Plaster Citizens of Pompeii
  

  Plaster Citizens of Pompeii

  Their last minutes captured in plaster

  Those that did not flee the city of Pompeii in August of 79 AD were doomed. Buried for 1700 years under 30 feet of mud and ash and reduced by the centuries to skeletons, they remained entombed... »

  Memento Mori, Disaster Areas, Long Now Locations, Incredible Ruins | Edited by Annetta, Dylan and others

• November 24, 2010 brittmarie033 liked The Duplicative Forest
  

  Oregon, US

  The Duplicative Forest

  Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

  Driving west on I-84, after you have just passed the thousands of bunkers at the Umatilla Chemical Depot, you start to wonder if some of those chemicals have leaked into the air causing you to... »

  Natural Wonders, Fascinating Fauna, Intriguing Environs | Edited by jamesb and A Facebook user

• November 24, 2010 brittmarie033 liked Heavener Runestone
  

  Heavener Runestone

  One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains

  One woman’s relentless belief turned what was just an odd stone into the central monument of a state park. The Heavener Runestone is a ten-foot by twelve-foot high sandstone slab carved with... »

  Intriguing Environs, Cultures and Civilizations | Edited by allison and wythe

• November 24, 2010 brittmarie033 liked Spiro Mounds
  

  Spiro Mounds

  Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient societies

  What was once a center of prehistoric power is now reduced to twelve earthen mounds. From a bend in the Arkansas River, the Spiro people led Mississippian culture over nearly two-thirds of what is... »

  Cultures and Civilizations , Incredible Ruins | Edited by allison, Dylan and others

• November 24, 2010 brittmarie033 liked The Center of the Universe
  

  The Center of the Universe

  An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause

  The Tulsa Center of the Universe is a worn concrete circle, approximately thirty inches in diameter, within the middle of another circle made up of thirteen bricks. Overall, the center is a little... »

  Unusual Monuments | Edited by Dylan

• November 24, 2010 brittmarie033 liked Abandoned Village of Kayakoy
  

  Kayakoy, Turkey

  Abandoned Village of Kayakoy

  A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece

  The deserted ruins of this once-bustling town are nestled against the Taurus Mountains, close to the world-famous beaches and yacht-filled harbor at Olu Deniz. Although the stone buildings are... »

  Ghost Towns, Incredible Ruins | Edited by NME76, Kalia_K and 2 others

• November 24, 2010 brittmarie033 has been to Pentaceratops Skull: Sam Noble Museum of Natural History
  

  Pentaceratops Skull: Sam Noble Museum of Natural History

  The largest land animal skull ever discovered

  At ten-and-a-half-feet tall, the Pentaceratops skull at the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History has the record for the world's largest land vertebrate skull. The enormous fossil with its... »

  Museums and Collections, Natural History | Edited by allison and Dylan

• November 24, 2010 brittmarie033 has been to Mesa Verde National Park
  

  Colorado, US

  Mesa Verde National Park

  The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, carved into the cliffs of majestic mesas

  Known for the dwellings of the people who archaeologists once called the "Anasazi," (a derisive Navajo term meaning "ancient enemy") Mesa Verde National Park in Montezuma County, Colorado, is home... »

  Eccentric Homes, Incredible Ruins | Edited by wythe and A Facebook user