Located on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, Machu Picchu is one of the most mystical sites on our planet. Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian Inca site built around 1400 AD. The area only thrived for 100 years and the place was abandoned following the Spanish conquest of ...
Tucson, Arizona You’ve no doubt already come across some interesting finds on Google Earth. The post below attempts to compile the most fascinating sites other have stumbled upon browsing Google Earth. From natural formations to human structures, the world is a different place when viewed from a...
This is one of the strangest places that is really unique and fits perfectly into the most mysterious places on earth category. Located near the town of Darvaz exists the place called ‘The Door of Hell’, which is what the locals refers to it. During the drilling of this cavern, the eq...
In finding this pattern repeated at sites around the world, I began to understand that the honoring of a place, its cultural geography, and the myths of its ancestral people, were evident in the original naming of the place, and in the images that mysteriously grace its mountains, valleys ...
A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean. Leiden, Netherlands Leiden Stones A trio of red, white, and blue stones embedded in the streets of Leiden are markers of medieval territory and law. Ironton, Missouri Taum Sauk Mountain In the...
The finding, announced today, solves a mystery over the source of strange blue light coming from Andromeda's center. But it generates a new puzzle: The stars' phenomenal orbital velocity suggests they should never have formed in the first place. Astronomers first spotted the blue light near And...
In the Turgai region of northern Kazakhstan, archeologists have documented five massive geometric shapes, hundreds of meters across, constructed from mounds of earth, trenches, and rampart structures. Discovered on Google Earth by Dmitriy Dey in 2007, the function of these figures remains a ...
Something unusual is going on in the atmosphere of Mars. Tracking the planet's eerie ultraviolet 'nightglow' has revealed two mysterious weather patterns that defy explanation - a persistent bright spot in the glow that keeps reappearing over ...
Google Maps Colorado's UFO Watchtower If you were an extra-terrestrial, wouldn't you want to land here? Colorados UFO Watchtower Google Maps Colorado's UFO Watchtower Given the history of extra-terrestrial activity documented in the area, this may be the perfect place from which to watch for...
Research suggests thatWestern Sahara was once a wetter placethat could sustain more animal life than it does today. Archaeologistsdocumented rock artshowing images of cattle, giraffe, oryx and Barbary sheep while environmental researchers found evidence for lakes and other water sources that dried up ...