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Ysabet

Geocacher, shameless writer, ferret-wrangler and 29-year-veteran of the SCA. I come from the Florida Panhandle but live in the Sonoran Desert and herd Case Managers at a hospital for a living.

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Naucalpan, Mexico

El Nido de Quetzalcóatl

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

KirstenCunningham

Added by KirstenCunningham

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Grand Prismatic Spring

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

nintendoocho

Added by nintendoocho

Ishinomaki, Japan

Cat Island

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Added by meredith

Newgrange

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

Herzberg am Harz, Germany

Unicorn Cave

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Kortezubi, Spain

Cueva de Santimamiñe (Santimamiñe Cave)

An archeological treasure trove stumbled upon by a couple of children.

Added by mongoosenamedt

Montignac, France

Cave of Lascaux

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

Allison

Added by Allison

Berlin, Maryland

Assateague Island

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

meganmichelle

Added by meganmichelle

Portland, Oregon

Portland's Shanghai Tunnels

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

jamesb

Added by jamesb

Portland, Oregon

Voodoo Doughnut and Wedding Chapel

The magic's in the hole!

littlebrumble

Added by littlebrumble

Portland, Oregon

The Freakybuttrue Peculiarium

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

NMaF

Kilkenny, Ireland

Kilmogue Portal Tomb

Huge standing stones mark a site of megalithic mystery.

barnumbrownie

Added by barnumbrownie

Rosscarbery, Ireland

Drombeg Stone Circle

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

Valerie

Added by Valerie

Lovell, Wyoming

Bighorn Medicine Wheel

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

Trevor

Added by Trevor

Jardin Rosa Mir

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.

serflac

Added by serflac

Mariscal Cáceres Province, Peru

Gran Pajaten

These delicate ruins need more tourists to keep them from fading away.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Galway, Ireland

Brigit's Celtic Garden

The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.

Added by Mylesnag

Delices, Dominica

Boiling Lake

This mountaintop lake bubbles and steams in a perpetual boil, thanks to its direct link to the Earth's interior.

Mark Casey

Added by Mark Casey

Kuelap Fortress

An Archaeological Wonder of Peru, and the largest stone ruin site in the New World.

davarian

Added by davarian

Port Angeles, Washington

Olympic Hot Springs

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

Added by pantone292

Lake Abbe

A salt lake dotted with steaming limestone chimneys.

serflac

Added by serflac

Trolltunga

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

stanestane

Added by stanestane

Scottsboro, Alabama

Unclaimed Baggage Center

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.

KaliaK

Added by KaliaK

Cullowhee, North Carolina

Judaculla Rock

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

Added by eSlacktish