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Strange and
Mysterious Places
>General
Resources
Earth's Mysteries
- Information
about several ancient sites and mysterious places
Mysterious
Britain - mysterious legends and folklore about the British Isles
Stone
Circles of Britain
Stone Pages - Stonehenge,
stone circles, dolmens, ancient standing stones, cairns, barrows,
hillforts and archaeology of megalithic
Europe
World Mysteries -
Mystic Places - a website with information about different
mysterious places
>Resources
about Specific Places
(In alphabetical
order; Hint - Use "Ctrl-F" to search for a specific place)
Adam's Peak - Sri Pada: Myth, Legend
and Geography -
site of "Holy footprint" in India
Adam's Peak - Sacred Sites
Angels of
Mons - explores the possibility of
divine intervention for British Expeditionary Force
Angels of Mons: FirstWorldWar.com
The
Case of the Elusive Angels of Mons
America's
Stonehenge -
possible manmade series of underground tunnels and caves in
northeastern United States
The UnMuseum - Mystery Hill (America's Stonehenge)
America's
Stonehenge - VeryFaery.com
Mystery Hill -
America's Stonehenge
America's Stonehenge - A New Theory
Arbor Low - A stone circle in Britain dating back to 2500 B.C.
Arbor Low, a Henge monument
Arbor Low Stone Circle
Arbor Low - Henge, Megalithic Mysteries
Arecibo Observatory
- the
world's largest radio telescope (beware of pop-ups)
Arecibo: Celestial Eavesdropper
NewScientist.com article
Angkor Wat - world's largest religious monument; located in Cambodia
Angkor Wat - Places of Peace and Power
Angkor Wat
Bancroft Tower - a tower in Massachusetts, built in 1900 to
honor U.S. Naval Academy Founder
Bancroft Tower in Worcester, Massachusetts
Bandiagara Escarpment - shrines built by ancient people in Mali
Journey to Mali
Sacred Sites of the Dogon, Mali
Cliffs of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons), Mali
Batu Caves
- Caves built
in the late 1800's in Malaysia
Batu Caves - Journey Malaysia
Thai
Pusam at Batu Caves, Malaysia
Batu
Caves
Baalbeck -
Ancient Roman
ruins in Lebanon
Baalbeck - Ikamma
Online guide to Lebaon
Online
Baalbeck
Welcome to Virtual Baalbeck
World
Mysteries.com
Basilica of Lourdes, France - springs and basilica that have healing powers
Pilgrimage to Lourdes
Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, Lourdes
Frommers Lourdes
Lourdes: Weather
Borobudur
Stupa, Java, Indonesia
- ancient Buddhist
temple
Highlight : Borobudur, the monumental
Stupa
Bristlecone Pine Forest -claims to be the oldest living thing on
the planet
Inyo
National Forest - Eastern Rocky Mountain region
Pike
National Forest - information about the area of Bristlecone
Brown Mountain Lights
- weird lights in
the mountain tops near Appalachian State, North Carolina
Brown Mountain
Lights
Brown Mountain
Lights
Experiments on Brown Mountain
Cave of Lascaux - ancient paintings on cave walls in Massif Central
Sacred Destinations
Lascaux Cave Paintings and Location
Cave of Lascaux
Chaco Culture -
National Park Service
- Ruins from
ancient Pubebloan culture
Chaco
Canyon, New Mexico
Clava Burial Chambers of the Neolithic - stone tombs in northeast Scotland
Clava Cairns, Inverness
Clava Cairns
The Racetrack
Playa - Death Valley, California -
"moving" rocks and stones
Moving Stones of
California
Devil's Tower -
National Park Service -
a vertical
monolith (rock), rising more than 1200 feet in the air
Devil's Tower National Monument
Dwarka - Jagat
Mandir temple - ancient temples in
India
Dwarka - Travel in India
Dwarka the Sacred City
Fossa Standing Stones,
Abruzzo
- ancient burial
site in Italy
Stones of Fossa
Mt.Fuji - highest mountain in Japan
Mt. Fuji - Sacred Land
Mt. Fuji - Travel Guide
Legends of
Glastonbury
- legends about
the Holy Grail
Glastonbury
Golden temple
Amritsar, India -
golden temple
built on water
Amritsar, India
Great Lakes Triangle - mysterious ship disappearances and boating weirdness on Lake Michigan
Michigan Triangle
Michigan Monsters
Lake
Michigan Triangle - A Sailor's Tale
Haguro San, Japan - site of an ancient shrine
Mt. Haguro - one of Japan's holiest sites
Haguro-san
Mount Haguro
Huichol Sacred Sites and Landscapes,
Mexico - ancient ruins
Jokhang Temple
- temple built in Tibet in 647
Jokhang Temple,
Lhasa, Tibet
Sights & Attractions --- The Jokhang
Temple
Tibet City
Guide
The
Potala Palace and the
Jokhang Temple Monastery,
Lhasa
Kailasa Temple - massive temple
built in India
Li
Lolghi - giant tomb in Sardinia,
Italy
Loch
Lochy -
site of Loch Ness
monster sightings
Lizzie the Loch Lochy Monster
Loch Arkaig - a loch in Scotland
Long Man of
Wilmington -
a man supposedly 230 feet tall
Long Man of Wilmington - Sussex Past
Long
Man of Wilmington - General Information
Long Meg and Her Daughters - a stone circle in
Britian
Long Meg and Her Daughters - Stones of England
Mt. Croach Patrick, Ireland - holy
site where St. Patrick visited
Mt. Croagh Patrick
Croagh Patrick
Mt.
Haguro, Japan - one of the holiest
sites in Japan
Mt.
Kailash, Tibet - sacred site of four
religions, large mountain
Mt. Olympus,
Greece
- thought to be temple of Greek god Zeus
Mt. Olympus
Frommers Travel Guide: Mount Olympus
Mount Olympus Travel Guide
Newgrange
and Knowth Megalithic tombs - tombs
on the east coast of Ireland
Mythical Ireland
Ollantaytambo -
a huge ancient Incan ruin built into a mountainside in Peru
Ollantaytambo
(Sacred Valley), Peru
Rennes-le-chateau - a medieval
French chateau thought to have been a hiding place for riches and
treasure of fugitives before they set out into the Mediterranean
Rennes-le-Château
The Secrets of Rennes-le-Château
Roswell
UFO Incident - possible UFO sightings in Roswell, New Mexico
The Roswell Crash, in Pictures
Roswell Report: Case Closed
Roswell UFO Crash
The Roswell
UFO Museum and Research Center
Round Towers of Ireland - round towers built in 7th to 10th century AD
52 Irish Round Towers
Irish Round Towers
The Sajama Lines - a major network
of sacred lines and roadways in the
Sajama
region of Bolivia
Sajama Lines - Bolivia
Serpent Mound -
Ohio -
the largest serpent effigy (representation of an image) in the U.S.;
built into hill side
Serpent Mound
Silbury
Hill - Earth Mound Wiltshire
- the tallest
prehistoric manmade mound in Europe
Silbury Hill - Wiltshire, England
Stone Spheres
Diquis Delta, Costa Rica -
giant round stones carved over 1,000 years ago, some weighing over
16 tons
Stone
Spheres of Costa Rica
Swayambhunath Stupa
- religious monument in India
Temple of the
Inscriptions -
a huge stone chamber built by Mayans
Palenque, Mexico
Teotihuacan-
The City of the Gods; an ancient Mexican city around during the time
of Christ
New
Tomb at Teotihuacan
Teotihuacan
Ancient
Teotihuacan image gallery
Teotihuacan - Civilizations in America
Teotihuacan - Great Buildings
Theatre Royal
Haymarket
- a London Theater
built in 1720
Theatre Royal
Haymarket
Theatre Royal
Haymarket - click on History
Tiahuanaco
- a
city in the Central Andes, settled in 400 BC
Tiahuanaco - Civilizations in America
Tower of
Of London Virtual Tour -
a famous London
tower built 1,000 years ago
Camelot Village - Tower of London
Tower of London - ghost stories
Treasure Pit of Oak Island - buried treasure off coast of Nova
Scotia
Oak Island Treasure
Mystery Pit of Oak Island
Uffington
White Horse
- the shape of a
white horse carved into hills in Britain
Uffington White Horse
Wayland's Smithy - Neolithic burial chamber in Britain
White Sands -
National Park Service
- glistening white
sands in New Mexico
White Sands National Monument
White Sands - Sacred Sites |