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 ...
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 ...
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...
Explore on Google Earth. Paracas Candelabra, Peru Paracas Candelabra, PeruWildnerdpix/iStock When most people think of Peruvian geoglyphs, images of the Nazca Lines come to mind. However, an equally impressive earthwork sits 116 miles to the northwest and is known as the Paracas Candelabra. Loca...
The Neutaconkanut Hill Conservancy calls Neutaconkanut Hill Park "the last wild place in Providence"—the capital city of Rhode Island with a population of nearly 200,000 as of 2020. It's a green oasis in a densely-populated part of the city, where 88 acres of open space comprise a ...
In 2021, the Guinness World Records organization determined thatOrfield Labs Quiet Chamberin Minneapolis was thequietest place on Earth—which comes in handy for the various manufacturers who use it to test their products, including various types of equipment that need to operate within certain soun...
These floating ice sheets don’t contribute much to sea level rise — as they’re already in the ocean — but they provide an important backstop against the flowing of land-based ice from continental Antarctica into the ocean.East Antarctica has been a mysterious place when it comes to ...
Lobnoye Mesto (which translates as “execution ground”) appeared on the Red Square in the mid-16th century. The most popular tourist tradition here is to toss a coin and try to hit the center. Despite the popularity of the place, very few know of its original purpose. Its shape and fo...
there are islands in the northeast of the American continent, as if the left wing of the bird was torn into pieces and it could not lift the chief of the earth tribe to the sky Babard, the head of the Earthling tribe, is the role of an old man who made the entire map of Sou...
“Nothing beyond what Verne wrote in Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea and The Mysterious Island.” - Nada além do que Júlio Verne escreveu em Vinte Mil Léguas Submarinas e A Ilha Misteriosa Literature This key will open the gateway to a place called... the Mysterious Island. Es...