Every legend on the map

California 38

• Bigfoot at Bluff Creek — California · Folklore and creatures
• Bloody Springs scattered coin — California · Lost mine or treasure
• Bohemian Grove & the Owl Shrine — California · Real place or ruin
• Gold Bluffs beach gold — California · Real place or ruin
• J.C. Brown and the lost cave of gold (Mount Shasta) — California · Lost mine or treasure
• Joaquin Murrieta’s caches — California · Lost mine or treasure
• Kokoweef’s river of gold — California · Lost mine or treasure
• Pegleg Smith’s lost black gold — California · Lost mine or treasure
• Rattlesnake Dick's lost loot — California · Lost mine or treasure
• Rattlesnake Dick’s lost express loot — California · Lost mine or treasure
• Red Bluff underground tunnels — California · Unsolved or unproven
• Spanish lost workings (northern mines) — California · Lost mine or treasure
• Tahoe Tessie — California · Folklore and creatures
• The Borrego Sandman — California · Folklore and creatures
• The Cahuenga Pass treasure — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Clear Creek coin wagon — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Dark Watchers — California · Folklore and creatures
• The Fricot Nugget (found 1865) — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Hemet Maze Stone — California · Real place or ruin
• The Lemurians of Mount Shasta — California · Folklore and creatures
• The Lost Cabin Mine (Trinity Alps) — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Lost Cement Mine — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Lost Dutch Oven mine — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Lost Gold Lake (Stoddard) — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Lost Gunsight lode — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Lost Ship of the Desert — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Mojave Nugget (found 1977) — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Owens Lake bullion — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Poker Flat cache — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Proctor Valley monster — California · Folklore and creatures
• The Riverside Bridge Monster (1958) — California · Folklore and creatures
• The Ruggles brothers' strongbox — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The Saddle Ridge Hoard (found 2014) — California · Lost mine or treasure
• The sailing stones of Racetrack Playa — California · Real place or ruin
• The white deer of Presidio Park — California · Real place or ruin
• Tiburcio Vasquez’s hideout loot — California · Lost mine or treasure
• Tragedy Spring cached gold — California · Lost mine or treasure
• William Waddell’s wandering arm — California · Unsolved or unproven

United Kingdom 22

• Avebury — United Kingdom · Real place or ruin
• Maeshowe — United Kingdom · Real place or ruin
• Overtoun Bridge — United Kingdom · Real place or ruin
• Rendlesham Forest — United Kingdom · Real place or ruin
• Rosslyn Chapel — United Kingdom · Temples, orders and the old mysteries
• Silbury Hill — United Kingdom · Real place or ruin
• Sutton Hoo — United Kingdom · Lost mine or treasure
• The Bell of King John / Loch Lomond — United Kingdom · Lost mine or treasure
• The Calanais Stones — United Kingdom · Real place or ruin
• The Cuerdale Hoard — United Kingdom · Lost mine or treasure
• The Flannan Isles lighthouse — United Kingdom · Real place or ruin
• The Galloway Hoard — United Kingdom · Lost mine or treasure
• The Giant’s Causeway — United Kingdom · Real place or ruin
• The Hellfire Caves — United Kingdom · Temples, orders and the old mysteries
• The Lewis Chessmen — United Kingdom · Lost mine or treasure
• The Loch Ness Monster — United Kingdom · Folklore and creatures
• The Ring of Brodgar — United Kingdom · Real place or ruin
• The Skaill Hoard — United Kingdom · Lost mine or treasure
• The St Ninian’s Isle Treasure — United Kingdom · Lost mine or treasure
• The Staffordshire Hoard — United Kingdom · Lost mine or treasure
• The green children of Woolpit — United Kingdom · Folklore and creatures
• Whitechapel, 1888 — United Kingdom · Unsolved or unproven

Russia 18

• Dyatlov Pass — Russia · Unsolved or unproven
• Kizhi Pogost — Russia · Real place or ruin
• Lake Baikal — Russia · Natural wonder
• Oymyakon, the pole of cold — Russia · Real place or ruin
• The Amber Room — Russia · Lost mine or treasure
• The Kola Superdeep Borehole — Russia · Real place or ruin
• The Kungur ice cave — Russia · Natural wonder
• The Lena Pillars — Russia · Natural wonder
• The Manpupuner pillars — Russia · Natural wonder
• The Patomskiy crater — Russia · Natural wonder
• The Putorana Plateau — Russia · Natural wonder
• The Ruskeala marble quarry — Russia · Lost mine or treasure
• The Sampo of the Kalevala — Russia · Folklore and creatures
• The Solovetsky Islands — Russia · Real place or ruin
• The Valley of Geysers — Russia · Real place or ruin
• Tunguska — Russia · Natural wonder
• Veryovkina Cave — Russia · Natural wonder
• Wrangel Island — Russia · Natural wonder

China 14

• Hukou Waterfall — China · Natural wonder
• Jiuzhaigou — China · Real place or ruin
• Kashgar — China · Real place or ruin
• The Hanging Temple of Hengshan — China · Real place or ruin
• The Leshan Giant Buddha — China · Real place or ruin
• The Longmen Grottoes — China · Real place or ruin
• The Longyou Caves — China · Real place or ruin
• The Mogao Caves and the sealed library — China · Real place or ruin
• The Tarim mummies — China · Real place or ruin
• The Yeren of Shennongjia — China · Folklore and creatures
• The Yungang Grottoes — China · Real place or ruin
• The Zhangye Danxia — China · Real place or ruin
• The unopened tomb of Qin Shi Huang — China · Real place or ruin
• Zhangjiajie — China · Natural wonder

New York 13

• Camp Hero and the Montauk Project — New York · Folklore and creatures
• Captain Kidd’s treasure, Gardiners Island — New York · Lost mine or treasure
• Devil’s Hole, the cursed gorge — New York · Folklore and creatures
• Eternal Flame Falls — New York · Real place or ruin
• Lily Dale, the town of mediums — New York · Real place or ruin
• Rogers Rock and the great slide — New York · Unsolved or unproven
• Sleepy Hollow and the Headless Horseman — New York · Folklore and creatures
• The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel — New York · Real place or ruin
• The Cardiff Giant — New York · Folklore and creatures
• The Loomis Gang loot — New York · Lost mine or treasure
• The Old Croton Aqueduct — New York · Real place or ruin
• The abandoned City Hall station — New York · Real place or ruin
• Wardenclyffe, Tesla’s tower — New York · Real place or ruin

Mexico 10

• Copán — Mexico · Real place or ruin
• El Chupacabra — Mexico · Folklore and creatures
• La Llorona, the Weeping Woman — Mexico · Folklore and creatures
• Palenque — Mexico · Real place or ruin
• Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl — Mexico · Real place or ruin
• Semuc Champey — Mexico · Natural wonder
• Teotihuacan — Mexico · Real place or ruin
• The Mapimí Silent Zone — Mexico · Unsolved or unproven
• The Sacred Cenote of Chichén Itzá — Mexico · Folklore and creatures
• Tikal — Mexico · Real place or ruin

Brazil 9

• Chapada Diamantina — Brazil · Natural wonder
• Chapada dos Veadeiros — Brazil · Natural wonder
• El Dorado’s cousin: the Lost City of Z — Brazil · Unsolved or unproven
• Fernando de Noronha — Brazil · Real place or ruin
• Lençóis Maranhenses — Brazil · Natural wonder
• Serra Pelada — Brazil · Lost mine or treasure
• Serra da Capivara — Brazil · Real place or ruin
• Snake Island, Ilha da Queimada Grande — Brazil · Natural wonder
• The Pantanal — Brazil · Natural wonder

Australia 8

• Coober Pedy — Australia · Lost mine or treasure
• Lake Hillier — Australia · Natural wonder
• Lasseter’s Reef — Australia · Lost mine or treasure
• The Bungle Bungle Range, Purnululu — Australia · Natural wonder
• The Bunyip — Australia · Folklore and creatures
• The Naracoorte Caves — Australia · Real place or ruin
• The Somerton Man — Australia · Unsolved or unproven
• Wave Rock — Australia · Real place or ruin

Florida 8

• Spook Hill — Florida · Folklore and creatures
• The 1715 Treasure Fleet and the Treasure Coast — Florida · Lost mine or treasure
• The 1733 Spanish Fleet of the Keys — Florida · Lost mine or treasure
• The Atocha — Florida · Lost mine or treasure
• The Coral Castle — Florida · Real place or ruin
• The Devil’s Chair, Cassadaga — Florida · Folklore and creatures
• The Fountain of Youth — Florida · Unsolved or unproven
• The Skunk Ape — Florida · Folklore and creatures

Greece 8

• Akrotiri — Greece · Real place or ruin
• Knossos — Greece · Real place or ruin
• Meteora — Greece · Real place or ruin
• Mycenae — Greece · Real place or ruin
• Priam’s Treasure — Greece · Lost mine or treasure
• The Antikythera mechanism — Greece · Real place or ruin
• The Antikythera wreck — Greece · Real place or ruin
• The Phaistos Disc — Greece · Unsolved or unproven

Nevada 8

• Area 51, Groom Lake — Nevada · Real place or ruin
• Fly Geyser — Nevada · Natural wonder
• Ted Binion’s buried silver (found 1999) — Nevada · Lost mine or treasure
• The Extraterrestrial Highway — Nevada · Folklore and creatures
• The Lost Breyfogle ledge — Nevada · Lost mine or treasure
• The Lost Hardin silver — Nevada · Folklore and creatures
• The Lost Sheepherder mine — Nevada · Lost mine or treasure
• The red-haired giants of Lovelock Cave — Nevada · Folklore and creatures

Pennsylvania 8

• Benjamin Lay, the cave-dwelling abolitionist — Pennsylvania · Real place or ruin
• Kecksburg — Pennsylvania · Unsolved or unproven
• Marcus Hook, the pirate haven — Pennsylvania · Lost mine or treasure
• Ringing Rocks — Pennsylvania · Real place or ruin
• The Boy in the Box — Pennsylvania · Unsolved or unproven
• The Devil’s Pool — Pennsylvania · Folklore and creatures
• The Hermits of the Wissahickon — Pennsylvania · Real place or ruin
• The Toynbee tiles — Pennsylvania · Unsolved or unproven

Arizona 7

• Antelope Canyon — Arizona · Natural wonder
• Sedona and the red rock country — Arizona · Natural wonder
• The Lost Adams Diggings (Arizona claim) — Arizona · Lost mine or treasure
• The Lost Dutchman mine — Arizona · Lost mine or treasure
• The Peralta stones — Arizona · Lost mine or treasure
• The Phoenix Lights — Arizona · Unsolved or unproven
• The Planchas de Plata — Arizona · Lost mine or treasure

India 7

• Adam’s Bridge — India · Natural wonder
• Chand Baori — India · Real place or ruin
• Lonar crater lake — India · Natural wonder
• The Barabar Caves — India · Real place or ruin
• The Kailasa temple at Ellora — India · Real place or ruin
• The Konark Sun Temple — India · Real place or ruin
• The Padmanabhaswamy treasure — India · Lost mine or treasure

Michigan 7

• Le Griffon, the lost ship — Michigan · Unsolved or unproven
• The Baldoon Mystery — Michigan · Folklore and creatures
• The Edmund Fitzgerald — Michigan · Real place or ruin
• The Michigan Dogman — Michigan · Folklore and creatures
• The Nain Rouge of Detroit — Michigan · Folklore and creatures
• The Paulding Light — Michigan · Folklore and creatures
• The ancient copper of Isle Royale — Michigan · Real place or ruin

Oregon 7

• Crater Lake: the battle of Llao and Skell — Oregon · Folklore and creatures
• Fort Rock Cave and the oldest shoes on Earth — Oregon · Real place or ruin
• The Blue Bucket Mine — Oregon · Lost mine or treasure
• The Bohemia district and Bohemia Johnson — Oregon · Lost mine or treasure
• The Lost Blue Bucket Mine — Oregon · Lost mine or treasure
• The Neahkahnie treasure and the beeswax wreck — Oregon · Lost mine or treasure
• The Port Orford meteorite — Oregon · Unsolved or unproven

Peru 7

• Caral — Peru · Real place or ruin
• Chan Chan — Peru · Real place or ruin
• Machu Picchu — Peru · Real place or ruin
• Paititi, the last Inca refuge — Peru · Lost mine or treasure
• Sacsayhuamán — Peru · Real place or ruin
• Shanay-timpishka, the boiling river — Peru · Natural wonder
• The Nasca lines — Peru · Real place or ruin

Turkey 7

• Ani — Turkey · Real place or ruin
• Ephesus — Turkey · Real place or ruin
• Göbekli Tepe — Turkey · Real place or ruin
• Hattusa — Turkey · Real place or ruin
• Mount Nemrut — Turkey · Real place or ruin
• Pamukkale — Turkey · Real place or ruin
• The Ararat anomaly — Turkey · Unsolved or unproven

Antarctica 6

• Blood Falls, Antarctica — Antarctica · Natural wonder
• Deception Island — Antarctica · Natural wonder
• Don Juan Pond — Antarctica · Real place or ruin
• Lake Vostok — Antarctica · Natural wonder
• Mount Erebus — Antarctica · Real place or ruin
• The McMurdo Dry Valleys — Antarctica · Real place or ruin

Colorado 5

• Alferd Packer, the Colorado cannibal — Colorado · Real place or ruin
• Mesa Verde — Colorado · Real place or ruin
• The Fenn treasure — Colorado · Lost mine or treasure
• The Matchless Mine and Baby Doe — Colorado · Lost mine or treasure
• Treasure Mountain and the French gold — Colorado · Lost mine or treasure

Egypt 5

• Nabta Playa — Egypt · Real place or ruin
• The Curse of the Pharaohs — Egypt · Folklore and creatures
• The Osireion at Abydos — Egypt · Temples, orders and the old mysteries
• The Serapeum of Saqqara — Egypt · Real place or ruin
• The lost tomb of Nefertiti — Egypt · Unsolved or unproven

France 5

• Rennes-le-Chateau — France · Temples, orders and the old mysteries
• The Beast of Gévaudan — France · Folklore and creatures
• The Carnac stones — France · Real place or ruin
• The Rhinegold of the Nibelungs — France · Lost mine or treasure
• The dancing plague of 1518 — France · Unsolved or unproven

Georgia 5

• Dahlonega and the Cherokee gold — Georgia · Real place or ruin
• The Altamaha-ha — Georgia · Folklore and creatures
• The Georgia Guidestones — Georgia · Real place or ruin
• The Moon-Eyed People — Georgia · Folklore and creatures
• The lost Confederate treasury — Georgia · Lost mine or treasure

Iowa 5

• Galena, the lead city — Iowa · Lost mine or treasure
• Julien Dubuque and the Iowa lead — Iowa · Lost mine or treasure
• The Effigy Mounds — Iowa · Real place or ruin
• The Keokuk geode beds — Iowa · Lost mine or treasure
• The Villisca axe murders — Iowa · Real place or ruin

Kazakhstan 5

• Aralsk and the sea that came back — Kazakhstan · Natural wonder
• Charyn Canyon — Kazakhstan · Natural wonder
• The Bermuda Triangle’s cousin: the Nazca of Kazakhstan — Kazakhstan · Real place or ruin
• The Tamgaly petroglyphs — Kazakhstan · Real place or ruin
• The mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi — Kazakhstan · Real place or ruin

Libya 5

• Cyrene — Libya · Real place or ruin
• Ghadames — Libya · Real place or ruin
• Leptis Magna — Libya · Real place or ruin
• Sabratha — Libya · Real place or ruin
• The rock art of the Tadrart Acacus — Libya · Real place or ruin

Maryland 5

• Edgar Allan Poe and the Poe Toaster — Maryland · Real place or ruin
• Kryptos — Maryland · Unsolved or unproven
• The Goatman — Maryland · Folklore and creatures
• The Snallygaster — Maryland · Folklore and creatures
• The gold mine in Rock Creek Park — Maryland · Lost mine or treasure

Mauritania 5

• Chinguetti — Mauritania · Real place or ruin
• Ouadane — Mauritania · Real place or ruin
• Oualata — Mauritania · Real place or ruin
• The Richat Structure — Mauritania · Natural wonder
• Tichitt — Mauritania · Real place or ruin

Ohio 5

• The Great Serpent Mound — Ohio · Real place or ruin
• The Loveland Frog — Ohio · Folklore and creatures
• The Melon Heads & the Ohio woods — Ohio · Folklore and creatures
• The Wow! signal — Ohio · Unsolved or unproven
• Where they went looking for the aether — Ohio · Temples, orders and the old mysteries

Philippines 5

• The Aswang — Philippines · Folklore and creatures
• The Chocolate Hills — Philippines · Natural wonder
• The Puerto Princesa underground river — Philippines · Natural wonder
• The Yamashita treasure — Philippines · Lost mine or treasure
• Yamashita’s gold — Philippines · Lost mine or treasure

Utah 5

• Hovenweep — Utah · Real place or ruin
• Montezuma treasure at Kanab — Utah · Lost mine or treasure
• Robbers Roost — Utah · Real place or ruin
• Skinwalker Ranch — Utah · Unsolved or unproven
• The Lost Rhoades mines — Utah · Lost mine or treasure

Algeria 4

• Djémila — Algeria · Real place or ruin
• Tassili n’Ajjer — Algeria · Real place or ruin
• The M’zab Valley — Algeria · Real place or ruin
• Timgad — Algeria · Real place or ruin

Argentina 4

• Cueva de las Manos — Argentina · Real place or ruin
• Ischigualasto, the Valley of the Moon — Argentina · Real place or ruin
• The Perito Moreno glacier — Argentina · Natural wonder
• The Quebrada de Humahuaca — Argentina · Real place or ruin

British Columbia 4

• Ogopogo of Okanagan Lake — British Columbia · Folklore and creatures
• Sasquatch, the wild man of the woods — British Columbia · Folklore and creatures
• Slumach’s lost creek gold — British Columbia · Folklore and creatures
• The Lost Lemon Mine — British Columbia · Lost mine or treasure

Connecticut 4

• Dudleytown, the cursed hollow — Connecticut · Folklore and creatures
• The Black Dog of the Hanging Hills — Connecticut · Folklore and creatures
• The Leatherman — Connecticut · Real place or ruin
• The Voynich manuscript — Connecticut · Temples, orders and the old mysteries

Greenland 4

• Hvalsey Church — Greenland · Real place or ruin
• The Ilulissat Icefjord — Greenland · Natural wonder
• The Qilakitsoq mummies — Greenland · Real place or ruin
• The Qivittoq — Greenland · Folklore and creatures

Illinois 4

• Cahokia — Illinois · Real place or ruin
• Rosiclare and the Illinois fluorspar — Illinois · Lost mine or treasure
• The Max Headroom hijacking — Illinois · Unsolved or unproven
• The Piasa Bird — Illinois · Folklore and creatures

Iran 4

• Chogha Zanbil — Iran · Real place or ruin
• Naqsh-e Rostam — Iran · Real place or ruin
• Persepolis — Iran · Real place or ruin
• The windcatchers of Yazd — Iran · Real place or ruin

Kentucky 4

• The Kelly-Hopkinsville goblins — Kentucky · Folklore and creatures
• The Kentucky meat shower — Kentucky · Real place or ruin
• The Pope Lick Monster — Kentucky · Folklore and creatures
• The lost Swift Silver Mine — Kentucky · Lost mine or treasure

Louisiana 4

• Jean Lafitte’s treasure — Louisiana · Lost mine or treasure
• Poverty Point — Louisiana · Real place or ruin
• The Honey Island Swamp Monster — Louisiana · Folklore and creatures
• The Rougarou — Louisiana · Folklore and creatures

Mali 4

• The Bagre and the Mali djinn — Mali · Folklore and creatures
• The Bandiagara Escarpment — Mali · Real place or ruin
• The Dogon and Sirius — Mali · Unsolved or unproven
• The Great Mosque of Djenné — Mali · Real place or ruin

Massachusetts 4

• Dogtown — Massachusetts · Real place or ruin
• Proctor’s Ledge, Salem 1692 — Massachusetts · Folklore and creatures
• The Bridgewater Triangle — Massachusetts · Folklore and creatures
• The Hoosac Tunnel, the Bloody Pit — Massachusetts · Real place or ruin

Minnesota 4

• Paul Bunyan and Babe — Minnesota · Folklore and creatures
• Pepie of Lake Pepin — Minnesota · Folklore and creatures
• The Devil’s Kettle — Minnesota · Real place or ruin
• The Kensington Runestone — Minnesota · Real place or ruin

Mississippi 4

• Robert Johnson’s Crossroads — Mississippi · Folklore and creatures
• The Natchez Trace and the Harpe brothers — Mississippi · Real place or ruin
• The Windsor Ruins — Mississippi · Real place or ruin
• The Witch of Yazoo — Mississippi · Folklore and creatures

Mongolia 4

• The Flaming Cliffs — Mongolia · Real place or ruin
• The Mongolian death worm — Mongolia · Folklore and creatures
• The Orkhon Valley — Mongolia · Real place or ruin
• The tomb of Genghis Khan — Mongolia · Lost mine or treasure

Namibia 4

• Deadvlei — Namibia · Real place or ruin
• Kolmanskop — Namibia · Real place or ruin
• The Bom Jesus and the Skeleton Coast — Namibia · Lost mine or treasure
• The fairy circles of the Namib — Namibia · Unsolved or unproven

New Mexico 4

• The Lost Adams Diggings (New Mexico claim) — New Mexico · Lost mine or treasure
• The Roswell Incident — New Mexico · Unsolved or unproven
• The Taos Hum — New Mexico · Unsolved or unproven
• Victorio Peak — New Mexico · Lost mine or treasure

North Carolina 4

• Reed Gold Mine, where it started — North Carolina · Lost mine or treasure
• The Brown Mountain Lights — North Carolina · Folklore and creatures
• The Devil’s Tramping Ground — North Carolina · Folklore and creatures
• The Lost Colony of Roanoke — North Carolina · Unsolved or unproven

Ontario 4

• The Cobalt silver rush — Ontario · Real place or ruin
• The Screaming Tunnel — Ontario · Folklore and creatures
• The Wendigo — Ontario · Folklore and creatures
• Tom Thomson and Canoe Lake — Ontario · Unsolved or unproven

Sudan 4

• El-Kurru — Sudan · Real place or ruin
• Jebel Barkal — Sudan · Real place or ruin
• Meroë and the pyramids of Kush — Sudan · Real place or ruin
• Old Dongola — Sudan · Real place or ruin

Sweden 4

• The Baltic Sea anomaly — Sweden · Unsolved or unproven
• The Devil’s Bible — Sweden · Folklore and creatures
• The Kraken and the Norwegian deep — Sweden · Folklore and creatures
• The Spillings Hoard — Sweden · Lost mine or treasure

Tennessee 4

• Coker Creek gold — Tennessee · Lost mine or treasure
• The Bell Witch — Tennessee · Folklore and creatures
• The Lost Sea — Tennessee · Natural wonder
• The Wampus Cat — Tennessee · Folklore and creatures

Washington 4

• Mels Hole — Washington · Unsolved or unproven
• Monte Cristo, the mountain gold camp — Washington · Folklore and creatures
• Plummer road-agent caches, Lewiston country — Washington · Lost mine or treasure
• The D.B. Cooper ransom — Washington · Unsolved or unproven

Washington DC 4

• The Demon Cat of the Capitol — Washington DC · Folklore and creatures
• The Exorcist steps — Washington DC · Real place or ruin
• The Hope Diamond and its curse — Washington DC · Lost mine or treasure
• The House of the Temple — Washington DC · Temples, orders and the old mysteries

West Virginia 4

• Mothman — West Virginia · Folklore and creatures
• The Flatwoods Monster — West Virginia · Folklore and creatures
• The Quiet Zone — West Virginia · Folklore and creatures
• The Sodder children — West Virginia · Unsolved or unproven

Wisconsin 4

• The Beast of Bray Road — Wisconsin · Folklore and creatures
• The Hodag of Rhinelander — Wisconsin · Folklore and creatures
• The Ridgeway Ghost — Wisconsin · Folklore and creatures
• The Rock Lake pyramids — Wisconsin · Unsolved or unproven

Wyoming 4

• Devils Tower / Bear Lodge — Wyoming · Real place or ruin
• Hole-in-the-Wall — Wyoming · Real place or ruin
• The Bighorn Medicine Wheel — Wyoming · Real place or ruin
• The Lost Cabin Mine — Wyoming · Lost mine or treasure

Alabama 3

• The Sylacauga meteorite — Alabama · Real place or ruin
• The Wetumpka crater — Alabama · Natural wonder
• The woman the sky hit — Alabama · Real place or ruin

Alaska 3

• Kennecott — Alaska · Real place or ruin
• The Alaska Triangle — Alaska · Unsolved or unproven
• The Kushtaka — Alaska · Folklore and creatures

Arkansas 3

• The Crater of Diamonds — Arkansas · Lost mine or treasure
• The Fouke Monster — Arkansas · Folklore and creatures
• The Gurdon Light — Arkansas · Folklore and creatures

Chad 3

• Guelta d’Archei — Chad · Natural wonder
• The Ennedi Massif — Chad · Natural wonder
• The Lakes of Ounianga — Chad · Natural wonder

Czechia 3

• The Golem of Prague — Czechia · Folklore and creatures
• The Nazi gold train — Czechia · Lost mine or treasure
• The Sedlec Ossuary — Czechia · Real place or ruin

Delaware 3

• Fort Delaware — Delaware · Folklore and creatures
• The Cape Henlopen pirate treasure — Delaware · Lost mine or treasure
• The Selbyville Swamp Monster — Delaware · Folklore and creatures

Hawaii 3

• Pele, goddess of the volcano — Hawaii · Folklore and creatures
• The Menehune — Hawaii · Folklore and creatures
• The Night Marchers — Hawaii · Folklore and creatures

Idaho 3

• Craters of the Moon — Idaho · Real place or ruin
• Sharlie of Payette Lake — Idaho · Folklore and creatures
• The Wheelbarrow Mine — Idaho · Lost mine or treasure

Indiana 3

• Diana of the Dunes — Indiana · Unsolved or unproven
• The Beast of Busco — Indiana · Folklore and creatures
• The Grey Lady of Willard Library — Indiana · Folklore and creatures

Indonesia 3

• Borobudur — Indonesia · Real place or ruin
• Gunung Padang — Indonesia · Real place or ruin
• Kawah Ijen and the blue fire — Indonesia · Natural wonder

Iraq 3

• Babylon — Iraq · Real place or ruin
• The Baghdad Battery — Iraq · Unsolved or unproven
• The Hanging Gardens of Babylon — Iraq · Unsolved or unproven

Ireland 3

• Newgrange — Ireland · Real place or ruin
• Skellig Michael — Ireland · Real place or ruin
• The Derrynaflan and Ardagh hoards — Ireland · Lost mine or treasure

Italy 3

• Carthage — Italy · Real place or ruin
• Herculaneum — Italy · Real place or ruin
• The Shroud of Turin — Italy · Temples, orders and the old mysteries

Kansas 3

• Quivira, the city Coronado crossed Kansas for — Kansas · Lost mine or treasure
• Stull Cemetery — Kansas · Unsolved or unproven
• The Monument Rocks chalk pyramids — Kansas · Folklore and creatures

Maine 3

• New England’s Dark Day — Maine · Real place or ruin
• Pamola and Katahdin — Maine · Folklore and creatures
• The treasure of Jewell Island — Maine · Lost mine or treasure

Missouri 3

• Momo, the Missouri Monster — Missouri · Folklore and creatures
• The Ozark Howler — Missouri · Folklore and creatures
• The Spooklight — Missouri · Folklore and creatures

Montana 3

• Montana Bar, the richest gulch — Montana · Real place or ruin
• The Ringing Rocks of Jefferson County — Montana · Folklore and creatures
• The sheriff who robbed his own roads — Montana · Lost mine or treasure

Nebraska 3

• Ashfall, the Nebraska waterhole — Nebraska · Real place or ruin
• Chimney Rock, the trail marker — Nebraska · Folklore and creatures
• Robbers Cave and the Nebraska sandstone — Nebraska · Real place or ruin

New Brunswick 3

• Oak Island and the Money Pit — New Brunswick · Lost mine or treasure
• The Dungarvon Whooper — New Brunswick · Folklore and creatures
• The Hopewell Rocks and the Fundy tides — New Brunswick · Real place or ruin

New Hampshire 3

• America’s Stonehenge — New Hampshire · Real place or ruin
• The Betty and Barney Hill encounter — New Hampshire · Folklore and creatures
• The Old Man of the Mountain — New Hampshire · Natural wonder

New Jersey 3

• Ong’s Hat — New Jersey · Unsolved or unproven
• The Hindenburg at Lakehurst — New Jersey · Real place or ruin
• The Jersey Devil — New Jersey · Folklore and creatures

Newfoundland and Labrador 3

• Shanawdithit and the Beothuk — Newfoundland and Labrador · Folklore and creatures
• Signal Hill and the first transatlantic signal — Newfoundland and Labrador · Real place or ruin
• The Vikings of Vinland — Newfoundland and Labrador · Real place or ruin

North Dakota 3

• Killdeer Mountain and Medicine Hole — North Dakota · Real place or ruin
• Standing Rock — North Dakota · Folklore and creatures
• The spirit of Devils Lake — North Dakota · Folklore and creatures

Norway 3

• The Hessdalen lights — Norway · Unsolved or unproven
• The Isdal Woman — Norway · Unsolved or unproven
• The Trolls of Norway — Norway · Folklore and creatures

Oklahoma 3

• Greenwood and the graves of 1921 — Oklahoma · Real place or ruin
• The Heavener Runestone — Oklahoma · Real place or ruin
• The Spanish gold of the Wichitas — Oklahoma · Lost mine or treasure

Paraguay 3

• Iguazu Falls — Paraguay · Natural wonder
• The Jesuit missions of Trinidad and Jesús — Paraguay · Real place or ruin
• The lost treasure of Lopez — Paraguay · Lost mine or treasure

Rhode Island 3

• Mercy Brown — Rhode Island · Folklore and creatures
• The Newport Tower — Rhode Island · Real place or ruin
• The Palatine Light of Block Island — Rhode Island · Folklore and creatures

Romania 3

• Movile Cave — Romania · Real place or ruin
• Sarmizegetusa and the Dacian gold — Romania · Lost mine or treasure
• The Hoia-Baciu forest — Romania · Unsolved or unproven

Saudi Arabia 3

• At-Turaif, Diriyah — Saudi Arabia · Real place or ruin
• Hegra — Saudi Arabia · Real place or ruin
• The rock art at Jubbah — Saudi Arabia · Real place or ruin

South Carolina 3

• The Gray Man of Pawleys Island — South Carolina · Folklore and creatures
• The Hunley — South Carolina · Real place or ruin
• The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp — South Carolina · Folklore and creatures

South Dakota 3

• Spirit Mound — South Dakota · Folklore and creatures
• The Thoen Stone — South Dakota · Real place or ruin
• Wind Cave and the emergence — South Dakota · Natural wonder

Texas 3

• Jean Lafitte’s Gulf treasure — Texas · Lost mine or treasure
• The Singer gold of Padre Island — Texas · Lost mine or treasure
• The lost San Saba mine, the Bowie mine — Texas · Lost mine or treasure

Uzbekistan 3

• Bukhara — Uzbekistan · Real place or ruin
• Khiva — Uzbekistan · Real place or ruin
• The Registan — Uzbekistan · Real place or ruin

Vermont 3

• Champ of Lake Champlain — Vermont · Folklore and creatures
• Memphre of Lake Memphremagog — Vermont · Folklore and creatures
• The Bennington Triangle — Vermont · Unsolved or unproven

Virginia 3

• Natural Bridge — Virginia · Natural wonder
• The Beale ciphers — Virginia · Lost mine or treasure
• The Bunny Man — Virginia · Folklore and creatures

Yukon 3

• Bonanza Creek and the Klondike — Yukon · Lost mine or treasure
• The Cremation of Sam McGee — Yukon · Unsolved or unproven
• The Nahanni and Headless Valley — Yukon · Folklore and creatures

Afghanistan 2

• Band-e Amir — Afghanistan · Real place or ruin
• The niches at Bamiyan — Afghanistan · Real place or ruin

Angola 2

• Kalandula Falls — Angola · Natural wonder
• The Black Rocks of Pungo Andongo — Angola · Real place or ruin

Bahamas 2

• Dean’s Blue Hole — Bahamas · Real place or ruin
• The Bimini Road — Bahamas · Unsolved or unproven

Bolivia 2

• Pumapunku — Bolivia · Real place or ruin
• Salar de Uyuni — Bolivia · Real place or ruin

Bulgaria 2

• The Panagyurishte treasure — Bulgaria · Lost mine or treasure
• The Zmey and the Bulgarian dragon — Bulgaria · Folklore and creatures

Chile 2

• Rongorongo — Chile · Unsolved or unproven
• The Moai of Rapa Nui — Chile · Folklore and creatures

Colombia 2

• Caño Cristales — Colombia · Real place or ruin
• El Dorado — Colombia · Folklore and creatures

Costa Rica 2

• Río Celeste — Costa Rica · Natural wonder
• The stone spheres of the Diquís — Costa Rica · Real place or ruin

Djibouti 2

• Lake Abbe — Djibouti · Natural wonder
• Lake Assal — Djibouti · Real place or ruin

El Salvador 2

• Joya de Cerén — El Salvador · Real place or ruin
• Tazumal — El Salvador · Real place or ruin

Ethiopia 2

• Axum and the Ark of the Covenant — Ethiopia · Temples, orders and the old mysteries
• Dallol — Ethiopia · Real place or ruin

Fiji 2

• Levuka — Fiji · Real place or ruin
• The Sigatoka Sand Dunes — Fiji · Real place or ruin

Finland 2

• Aarnivalkea, the fox fires — Finland · Lost mine or treasure
• The Sampo raid and Pohjola — Finland · Folklore and creatures

Germany 2

• Hinterkaifeck — Germany · Unsolved or unproven
• The Externsteine — Germany · Real place or ruin

Ghana 2

• Cape Coast Castle — Ghana · Real place or ruin
• The Golden Stool of the Asante — Ghana · Real place or ruin

Israel 2

• The Copper Scroll treasure — Israel · Temples, orders and the old mysteries
• Timna and the mines called Solomon’s — Israel · Temples, orders and the old mysteries

Japan 2

• The Yonaguni Monument — Japan · Unsolved or unproven
• Yamata-no-Orochi and the sword — Japan · Folklore and creatures

Laos 2

• The Naga of the Mekong — Laos · Folklore and creatures
• The Plain of Jars — Laos · Real place or ruin

Malta 2

• The Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum — Malta · Real place or ruin
• Ġgantija — Malta · Real place or ruin

Manitoba 2

• The Falcon Lake incident — Manitoba · Unsolved or unproven
• The petroforms of the Whiteshell — Manitoba · Real place or ruin

Micronesia 2

• Chuuk Lagoon — Micronesia · Real place or ruin
• Nan Madol, the city on the reef — Micronesia · Real place or ruin

Morocco 2

• Sijilmasa, the gate of the gold road — Morocco · Real place or ruin
• Volubilis — Morocco · Real place or ruin

Mozambique 2

• Gorongosa — Mozambique · Natural wonder
• The Island of Mozambique — Mozambique · Real place or ruin

Nepal 2

• The Yeti — Nepal · Folklore and creatures
• The beyul, the hidden valleys — Nepal · Folklore and creatures

New Zealand 2

• Taniwha of the rivers — New Zealand · Folklore and creatures
• The Moeraki Boulders — New Zealand · Real place or ruin

Nicaragua 2

• Masaya, the mouth of hell — Nicaragua · Natural wonder
• Ometepe — Nicaragua · Real place or ruin

Nigeria 2

• Mami Wata — Nigeria · Folklore and creatures
• The Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove — Nigeria · Real place or ruin

Nunavut 2

• Angikuni Lake — Nunavut · Unsolved or unproven
• Franklin’s lost expedition — Nunavut · Real place or ruin

Panama 2

• Coiba — Panama · Natural wonder
• Panamá Viejo — Panama · Real place or ruin

Papua New Guinea 2

• Kuk Swamp — Papua New Guinea · Real place or ruin
• The Kokoda Track — Papua New Guinea · Real place or ruin

Poland 2

• Bialowieza Forest and the last wild bison — Poland · Natural wonder
• The Crooked Forest — Poland · Real place or ruin

Samoa 2

• The Alofaaga Blowholes — Samoa · Real place or ruin
• The Pulemelei Mound — Samoa · Real place or ruin

Saskatchewan 2

• The Cypress Hills massacre — Saskatchewan · Real place or ruin
• The St Louis ghost train — Saskatchewan · Folklore and creatures

Senegal 2

• Gorée — Senegal · Real place or ruin
• Lake Retba, the pink lake — Senegal · Natural wonder

Serbia 2

• Rosia Montana and the Apuseni gold — Serbia · Lost mine or treasure
• The Rusalka and the Slavic water — Serbia · Folklore and creatures

Solomon Islands 2

• East Rennell — Solomon Islands · Natural wonder
• Ironbottom Sound — Solomon Islands · Real place or ruin

Somalia 2

• Cal Madow — Somalia · Natural wonder
• Laas Geel — Somalia · Real place or ruin

South Africa 2

• The Tokoloshe — South Africa · Folklore and creatures
• The Vredefort Dome — South Africa · Lost mine or treasure

Suriname 2

• Central Suriname Nature Reserve — Suriname · Natural wonder
• The historic inner city of Paramaribo — Suriname · Real place or ruin

Syria 2

• Krak des Chevaliers — Syria · Real place or ruin
• Palmyra — Syria · Real place or ruin

Tanzania 2

• Lake Natron — Tanzania · Natural wonder
• Stone Town, Zanzibar — Tanzania · Real place or ruin

Thailand 2

• Ayutthaya — Thailand · Real place or ruin
• The Naga fireballs — Thailand · Unsolved or unproven

Trinidad and Tobago 2

• Caroni Swamp — Trinidad and Tobago · Natural wonder
• The Pitch Lake — Trinidad and Tobago · Natural wonder

Turkmenistan 2

• Merv — Turkmenistan · Real place or ruin
• The Darvaza gas crater — Turkmenistan · Natural wonder

Uganda 2

• The Mountains of the Moon — Uganda · Real place or ruin
• The Nkisi and the Ugandan Ssese spirits — Uganda · Folklore and creatures

Vanuatu 2

• Mount Yasur — Vanuatu · Real place or ruin
• The wreck of the SS President Coolidge — Vanuatu · Real place or ruin

Venezuela 2

• Angel Falls — Venezuela · Natural wonder
• The Mountain of Lost Silver: Roraima — Venezuela · Folklore and creatures

Yemen 2

• Shibam — Yemen · Real place or ruin
• Socotra — Yemen · Natural wonder

Austria 1

• The Nibelung hoard of Vienna: the Habsburg treasures — Austria · Lost mine or treasure

Bangladesh 1

• Bonbibi of the Sundarbans — Bangladesh · Folklore and creatures

Bermuda 1

• Nonsuch Island and the cahow — Bermuda · Natural wonder

Bhutan 1

• The Nazca of the north: the Ancient Bristlecones... and Bhutan’s Migoi — Bhutan · Folklore and creatures

Botswana 1

• The Tsodilo Hills — Botswana · Real place or ruin

Croatia 1

• The Baska tablet — Croatia · Folklore and creatures

Ecuador 1

• The treasure of Llanganates — Ecuador · Lost mine or treasure

Eritrea 1

• The Queen of Sheba’s gold — Eritrea · Temples, orders and the old mysteries

Estonia 1

• The Kaali crater — Estonia · Natural wonder

Guyana 1

• Kaieteur Falls — Guyana · Natural wonder

Haiti 1

• The Citadelle Laferrière — Haiti · Real place or ruin

Honduras 1

• The Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve — Honduras · Natural wonder

Iceland 1

• The Huldufolk and the elf stones — Iceland · Folklore and creatures

Jamaica 1

• Cockpit Country — Jamaica · Real place or ruin

Latvia 1

• The Wolf of Latvia and the Baltic amber gods — Latvia · Folklore and creatures

Lebanon 1

• Baalbek and the trilithon — Lebanon · Real place or ruin

Madagascar 1

• The pirate anchorage of Ile Sainte-Marie — Madagascar · Real place or ruin

Myanmar 1

• Kyaiktiyo, the Golden Rock — Myanmar · Real place or ruin

Niger 1

• Gobero — Niger · Real place or ruin

Northwest Territories 1

• Giant Mine and the arsenic under Yellowknife — Northwest Territories · Folklore and creatures

Pakistan 1

• Mohenjo-daro — Pakistan · Real place or ruin

Prince Edward Island 1

• The phantom ship of Northumberland Strait — Prince Edward Island · Folklore and creatures

Puerto Rico 1

• Arecibo Observatory — Puerto Rico · Real place or ruin

Quebec 1

• La Chasse-galerie — Quebec · Folklore and creatures

Slovakia 1

• The Golem’s cousin: Slovakia’s Cachtice — Slovakia · Folklore and creatures

Spain 1

• The Treasure of Guarrazar — Spain · Lost mine or treasure

Sri Lanka 1

• Sigiriya — Sri Lanka · Real place or ruin

Ukraine 1

• The Scythian gold — Ukraine · Lost mine or treasure

Vietnam 1

• Hang Son Doong — Vietnam · Natural wonder

Zambia 1

• Kalambo Falls — Zambia · Natural wonder

Zimbabwe 1

• Great Zimbabwe and the Ophir myth — Zimbabwe · Real place or ruin

Elsewhere on the map 7

• Flight 19 and the Bermuda Triangle — Unsolved or unproven
• Point Nemo — Real place or ruin
• The Bermuda Triangle — Unsolved or unproven
• The Bloop — Unsolved or unproven
• The Devil’s Sea, the Pacific triangle — Unsolved or unproven
• The Mary Celeste — Unsolved or unproven
• The Vela incident — Unsolved or unproven