Real places and ruins

China 11

• 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 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

United Kingdom 9

• 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
• Silbury Hill — United Kingdom · Real place or ruin
• The Calanais Stones — United Kingdom · Real place or ruin
• The Flannan Isles lighthouse — United Kingdom · Real place or ruin
• The Giant’s Causeway — United Kingdom · Real place or ruin
• The Ring of Brodgar — United Kingdom · Real place or ruin

Greece 6

• Akrotiri — Greece · Real place or ruin
• Knossos — Greece · Real place or ruin
• Meteora — Greece · Real place or ruin
• Mycenae — Greece · Real place or ruin
• The Antikythera mechanism — Greece · Real place or ruin
• The Antikythera wreck — Greece · Real place or ruin

New York 6

• Eternal Flame Falls — New York · Real place or ruin
• Lily Dale, the town of mediums — New York · Real place or ruin
• The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel — New York · Real place or ruin
• 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

Turkey 6

• 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

California 5

• Bohemian Grove & the Owl Shrine — California · Real place or ruin
• Gold Bluffs beach gold — California · Real place or ruin
• The Hemet Maze Stone — California · Real place or ruin
• The sailing stones of Racetrack Playa — California · Real place or ruin
• The white deer of Presidio Park — California · 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

Mexico 5

• Copán — Mexico · Real place or ruin
• Palenque — Mexico · Real place or ruin
• Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl — Mexico · Real place or ruin
• Teotihuacan — Mexico · Real place or ruin
• Tikal — Mexico · Real place or ruin

Peru 5

• Caral — Peru · Real place or ruin
• Chan Chan — Peru · Real place or ruin
• Machu Picchu — Peru · Real place or ruin
• Sacsayhuamán — Peru · Real place or ruin
• The Nasca lines — Peru · Real place or ruin

Russia 5

• Kizhi Pogost — Russia · Real place or ruin
• Oymyakon, the pole of cold — Russia · Real place or ruin
• The Kola Superdeep Borehole — Russia · Real place or ruin
• The Solovetsky Islands — Russia · Real place or ruin
• The Valley of Geysers — Russia · Real place or ruin

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

India 4

• Chand Baori — India · Real place or ruin
• 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

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

Mauritania 4

• Chinguetti — Mauritania · Real place or ruin
• Ouadane — Mauritania · Real place or ruin
• Oualata — Mauritania · Real place or ruin
• Tichitt — Mauritania · Real place or ruin

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

Antarctica 3

• Don Juan Pond — Antarctica · Real place or ruin
• Mount Erebus — Antarctica · Real place or ruin
• The McMurdo Dry Valleys — Antarctica · Real place or ruin

Argentina 3

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

Kazakhstan 3

• 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

Pennsylvania 3

• Benjamin Lay, the cave-dwelling abolitionist — Pennsylvania · Real place or ruin
• Ringing Rocks — Pennsylvania · Real place or ruin
• The Hermits of the Wissahickon — Pennsylvania · Real place or ruin

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

Uzbekistan 3

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

Wyoming 3

• 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

Afghanistan 2

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

Alabama 2

• The Sylacauga meteorite — Alabama · Real place or ruin
• The woman the sky hit — Alabama · Real place or ruin

Australia 2

• The Naracoorte Caves — Australia · Real place or ruin
• Wave Rock — Australia · Real place or ruin

Bolivia 2

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

Brazil 2

• Fernando de Noronha — Brazil · Real place or ruin
• Serra da Capivara — Brazil · Real place or ruin

Colorado 2

• Alferd Packer, the Colorado cannibal — Colorado · Real place or ruin
• Mesa Verde — Colorado · Real place or ruin

Egypt 2

• Nabta Playa — Egypt · Real place or ruin
• The Serapeum of Saqqara — Egypt · Real place or ruin

El Salvador 2

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

Fiji 2

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

Georgia 2

• Dahlonega and the Cherokee gold — Georgia · Real place or ruin
• The Georgia Guidestones — Georgia · 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

Greenland 2

• Hvalsey Church — Greenland · Real place or ruin
• The Qilakitsoq mummies — Greenland · Real place or ruin

Indonesia 2

• Borobudur — Indonesia · Real place or ruin
• Gunung Padang — Indonesia · Real place or ruin

Iowa 2

• The Effigy Mounds — Iowa · Real place or ruin
• The Villisca axe murders — Iowa · Real place or ruin

Ireland 2

• Newgrange — Ireland · Real place or ruin
• Skellig Michael — Ireland · Real place or ruin

Italy 2

• Carthage — Italy · Real place or ruin
• Herculaneum — Italy · Real place or ruin

Mali 2

• The Bandiagara Escarpment — Mali · Real place or ruin
• The Great Mosque of Djenné — Mali · Real place or ruin

Malta 2

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

Massachusetts 2

• Dogtown — Massachusetts · Real place or ruin
• The Hoosac Tunnel, the Bloody Pit — Massachusetts · Real place or ruin

Michigan 2

• The Edmund Fitzgerald — Michigan · Real place or ruin
• The ancient copper of Isle Royale — Michigan · 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

Minnesota 2

• The Devil’s Kettle — Minnesota · Real place or ruin
• The Kensington Runestone — Minnesota · Real place or ruin

Mississippi 2

• The Natchez Trace and the Harpe brothers — Mississippi · Real place or ruin
• The Windsor Ruins — Mississippi · Real place or ruin

Mongolia 2

• The Flaming Cliffs — Mongolia · Real place or ruin
• The Orkhon Valley — Mongolia · Real place or ruin

Morocco 2

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

Namibia 2

• Deadvlei — Namibia · Real place or ruin
• Kolmanskop — Namibia · Real place or ruin

Nebraska 2

• Ashfall, the Nebraska waterhole — Nebraska · Real place or ruin
• Robbers Cave and the Nebraska sandstone — Nebraska · Real place or ruin

Newfoundland and Labrador 2

• 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

Oklahoma 2

• Greenwood and the graves of 1921 — Oklahoma · Real place or ruin
• The Heavener Runestone — Oklahoma · 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

Samoa 2

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

Syria 2

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

Utah 2

• Hovenweep — Utah · Real place or ruin
• Robbers Roost — Utah · Real place or ruin

Vanuatu 2

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

Alaska 1

• Kennecott — Alaska · Real place or ruin

Angola 1

• The Black Rocks of Pungo Andongo — Angola · Real place or ruin

Bahamas 1

• Dean’s Blue Hole — Bahamas · Real place or ruin

Botswana 1

• The Tsodilo Hills — Botswana · Real place or ruin

Colombia 1

• Caño Cristales — Colombia · Real place or ruin

Connecticut 1

• The Leatherman — Connecticut · Real place or ruin

Costa Rica 1

• The stone spheres of the Diquís — Costa Rica · Real place or ruin

Czechia 1

• The Sedlec Ossuary — Czechia · Real place or ruin

Djibouti 1

• Lake Assal — Djibouti · Real place or ruin

Ethiopia 1

• Dallol — Ethiopia · Real place or ruin

Florida 1

• The Coral Castle — Florida · Real place or ruin

France 1

• The Carnac stones — France · Real place or ruin

Germany 1

• The Externsteine — Germany · Real place or ruin

Haiti 1

• The Citadelle Laferrière — Haiti · Real place or ruin

Idaho 1

• Craters of the Moon — Idaho · Real place or ruin

Illinois 1

• Cahokia — Illinois · Real place or ruin

Iraq 1

• Babylon — Iraq · Real place or ruin

Jamaica 1

• Cockpit Country — Jamaica · Real place or ruin

Kentucky 1

• The Kentucky meat shower — Kentucky · Real place or ruin

Laos 1

• The Plain of Jars — Laos · Real place or ruin

Lebanon 1

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

Louisiana 1

• Poverty Point — Louisiana · Real place or ruin

Madagascar 1

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

Maine 1

• New England’s Dark Day — Maine · Real place or ruin

Manitoba 1

• The petroforms of the Whiteshell — Manitoba · Real place or ruin

Maryland 1

• Edgar Allan Poe and the Poe Toaster — Maryland · Real place or ruin

Montana 1

• Montana Bar, the richest gulch — Montana · Real place or ruin

Mozambique 1

• The Island of Mozambique — Mozambique · Real place or ruin

Myanmar 1

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

Nevada 1

• Area 51, Groom Lake — Nevada · Real place or ruin

New Brunswick 1

• The Hopewell Rocks and the Fundy tides — New Brunswick · Real place or ruin

New Hampshire 1

• America’s Stonehenge — New Hampshire · Real place or ruin

New Jersey 1

• The Hindenburg at Lakehurst — New Jersey · Real place or ruin

New Zealand 1

• The Moeraki Boulders — New Zealand · Real place or ruin

Nicaragua 1

• Ometepe — Nicaragua · Real place or ruin

Niger 1

• Gobero — Niger · Real place or ruin

Nigeria 1

• The Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove — Nigeria · Real place or ruin

North Dakota 1

• Killdeer Mountain and Medicine Hole — North Dakota · Real place or ruin

Nunavut 1

• Franklin’s lost expedition — Nunavut · Real place or ruin

Ohio 1

• The Great Serpent Mound — Ohio · Real place or ruin

Ontario 1

• The Cobalt silver rush — Ontario · Real place or ruin

Oregon 1

• Fort Rock Cave and the oldest shoes on Earth — Oregon · Real place or ruin

Pakistan 1

• Mohenjo-daro — Pakistan · Real place or ruin

Panama 1

• Panamá Viejo — Panama · Real place or ruin

Paraguay 1

• The Jesuit missions of Trinidad and Jesús — Paraguay · Real place or ruin

Poland 1

• The Crooked Forest — Poland · Real place or ruin

Puerto Rico 1

• Arecibo Observatory — Puerto Rico · Real place or ruin

Rhode Island 1

• The Newport Tower — Rhode Island · Real place or ruin

Romania 1

• Movile Cave — Romania · Real place or ruin

Saskatchewan 1

• The Cypress Hills massacre — Saskatchewan · Real place or ruin

Senegal 1

• Gorée — Senegal · Real place or ruin

Solomon Islands 1

• Ironbottom Sound — Solomon Islands · Real place or ruin

Somalia 1

• Laas Geel — Somalia · Real place or ruin

South Carolina 1

• The Hunley — South Carolina · Real place or ruin

South Dakota 1

• The Thoen Stone — South Dakota · Real place or ruin

Sri Lanka 1

• Sigiriya — Sri Lanka · Real place or ruin

Suriname 1

• The historic inner city of Paramaribo — Suriname · Real place or ruin

Tanzania 1

• Stone Town, Zanzibar — Tanzania · Real place or ruin

Thailand 1

• Ayutthaya — Thailand · Real place or ruin

Turkmenistan 1

• Merv — Turkmenistan · Real place or ruin

Uganda 1

• The Mountains of the Moon — Uganda · Real place or ruin

Washington DC 1

• The Exorcist steps — Washington DC · Real place or ruin

Yemen 1

• Shibam — Yemen · Real place or ruin

Zimbabwe 1

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

Elsewhere on the map 1

• Point Nemo — Real place or ruin