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