Real places and ruins

Alberta 37

• Aísínai’pi, Writing-on-Stone — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• Cadomin Cave — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• Canada Olympic Park — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• Castleguard Cave — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• Dunvegan — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• Elk Island National Park — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• Fort Chipewyan — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• Fort Edmonton Park — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• Fort Whoop-Up — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• Gargantua — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• Genesee, where Alberta stopped burning coal — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• Grotto Canyon — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• Iniskim Umaapi, the Majorville medicine wheel — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• Leduc No. 1 — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• Minnewanka Landing, the town under the lake — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• Rocky Mountain House — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• The 2024 Jasper wildfire — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• The Athabasca oil sands — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• The Bar U Ranch — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• The Bellevue Underground Mine — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• The Bleriot Ferry — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• The Bruderheim meteorite — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• The Cave and Basin — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• The Frank Slide — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• The Hillcrest mine disaster — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• The Lodgepole blowout — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• The Pembina oil field — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• The Saamis Tepee — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• The Star Mine Suspension Bridge — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• The Torrington Gopher Hole Museum — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• The Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• Turner Valley and Hell’s Half Acre — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• Vulcan — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• Wabamun Lake — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• Waterton Lakes — Alberta · Real place or ruin
• West Edmonton Mall — Alberta · Real place or ruin

United Kingdom 10

• Avebury — United Kingdom · Real place or ruin
• Geevor and the Cornish tin coast — 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

California 9

• Gold Bluffs beach gold — California · Real place or ruin
• The Airport in the Sky — California · Real place or ruin
• The Catalina Casino — California · Real place or ruin
• The Diosa del Mar — California · Real place or ruin
• The Isthmus of Catalina Island — California · Real place or ruin
• The Wrigley Memorial & Botanic Garden — 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
• Wrigley Field, Avalon — California · Real place or ruin

China 8

• 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 Tarim mummies — China · Real place or ruin
• The Yungang Grottoes — China · Real place or ruin
• The Zhangye Danxia — China · Real place or ruin

Nebraska 8

• Antioch — Nebraska · Real place or ruin
• Ash Hollow — Nebraska · Real place or ruin
• Ashfall, the Nebraska waterhole — Nebraska · Real place or ruin
• Courthouse and Jail Rocks — Nebraska · Real place or ruin
• DeWitty — Nebraska · Real place or ruin
• Dobytown — Nebraska · Real place or ruin
• Fort Atkinson — Nebraska · Real place or ruin
• Robbers Cave and the Nebraska sandstone — Nebraska · Real place or ruin

Alabama 6

• Cahaba, the capital the rivers took back — Alabama · Real place or ruin
• Fort Morgan — Alabama · Real place or ruin
• Gantts Quarry — Alabama · Real place or ruin
• Moundville — Alabama · Real place or ruin
• Old St. Stephens — Alabama · Real place or ruin
• The woman the sky hit — Alabama · Real place or ruin

Australia 6

• Bendigo and the Victorian gold rush — Australia · Real place or ruin
• Broken Hill and the Line of Lode — Australia · Real place or ruin
• The Mount Morgan mine — Australia · Real place or ruin
• The Naracoorte Caves — Australia · Real place or ruin
• The Super Pit, Kalgoorlie — Australia · Real place or ruin
• Wave Rock — Australia · 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

South Carolina 6

• Colonial Dorchester — South Carolina · Real place or ruin
• Ellenton, the town the bomb plant took — South Carolina · Real place or ruin
• Fig Island — South Carolina · Real place or ruin
• Ninety Six and the Star Fort — South Carolina · Real place or ruin
• Old Sheldon Church ruins — South Carolina · Real place or ruin
• The Hunley — South Carolina · Real place or ruin

Wyoming 6

• Devils Tower / Bear Lodge — Wyoming · Real place or ruin
• Fort Phil Kearny — Wyoming · Real place or ruin
• Gebo — Wyoming · Real place or ruin
• Hole-in-the-Wall — Wyoming · Real place or ruin
• Independence Rock — Wyoming · Real place or ruin
• The Bighorn Medicine Wheel — Wyoming · Real place or ruin

Greece 5

• 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 wreck — Greece · Real place or ruin

India 5

• 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 Kolar Gold Fields — India · Real place or ruin
• The Konark Sun Temple — India · 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

• La Valenciana at Guanajuato — 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
• Zacatecas, the silver city — Mexico · Real place or ruin

North Dakota 5

• Fort Union Trading Post — North Dakota · Real place or ruin
• Killdeer Mountain and Medicine Hole — North Dakota · Real place or ruin
• The Huff village site — North Dakota · Real place or ruin
• The Newporte crater — North Dakota · Real place or ruin
• Wheelock — North Dakota · 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

Delaware 4

• Fort Christina — Delaware · Real place or ruin
• HMS DeBraak — Delaware · Real place or ruin
• The Ebright Azimuth — Delaware · Real place or ruin
• Trap Pond baldcypress swamp — Delaware · Real place or ruin

Iowa 4

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

Louisiana 4

• Fort Jackson — Louisiana · Real place or ruin
• Los Adaes — Louisiana · Real place or ruin
• Poverty Point — Louisiana · Real place or ruin
• The Bayou Corne sinkhole — Louisiana · 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

Mississippi 4

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

Peru 4

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

Turkey 4

• Ephesus — Turkey · Real place or ruin
• Hattusa — Turkey · Real place or ruin
• Mount Nemrut — Turkey · Real place or ruin
• Pamukkale — Turkey · 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

Arkansas 3

• Arkansas Post — Arkansas · Real place or ruin
• Booger Hollow — Arkansas · Real place or ruin
• Graysonia — Arkansas · Real place or ruin

Ghana 3

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

Hawaii 3

• Ka Lae, South Point — Hawaii · Real place or ruin
• Kapoho — Hawaii · Real place or ruin
• Laupāhoehoe Point — Hawaii · Real place or ruin

Illinois 3

• Cahokia — Illinois · Real place or ruin
• Valmeyer — Illinois · Real place or ruin
• Vishnu Springs — Illinois · Real place or ruin

Kansas 3

• El Cuartelejo — Kansas · Real place or ruin
• Silkville — Kansas · Real place or ruin
• Treece — Kansas · 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

Maine 3

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

Maryland 3

• Daniels — Maryland · Real place or ruin
• Edgar Allan Poe and the Poe Toaster — Maryland · Real place or ruin
• The Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory — Maryland · Real place or ruin

Massachusetts 3

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

Namibia 3

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

New Jersey 3

• Lucy the Elephant — New Jersey · Real place or ruin
• The Hindenburg at Lakehurst — New Jersey · Real place or ruin
• The Holmdel Horn Antenna — New Jersey · Real place or ruin

Oklahoma 3

• Camp Nichols — Oklahoma · Real place or ruin
• Greenwood and the graves of 1921 — Oklahoma · Real place or ruin
• The Ames crater — Oklahoma · 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

Rhode Island 3

• Block Island Southeast Light — Rhode Island · Real place or ruin
• The Flying Horse Carousel — Rhode Island · Real place or ruin
• The White Horse Tavern — Rhode Island · 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

South Dakota 3

• Bear Butte — South Dakota · Real place or ruin
• Fort Pierre Chouteau — South Dakota · Real place or ruin
• The Thoen Stone — South Dakota · Real place or ruin

Tennessee 3

• Fort Loudoun — Tennessee · Real place or ruin
• Pinson Mounds — Tennessee · Real place or ruin
• Sycamore Shoals — Tennessee · 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

Vermont 3

• Mount Independence — Vermont · Real place or ruin
• Stellafane — Vermont · Real place or ruin
• The St. Albans Raid — Vermont · Real place or ruin

Afghanistan 2

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

Alaska 2

• Kennecott — Alaska · Real place or ruin
• The Chilkoot Trail — Alaska · Real place or ruin

Botswana 2

• The Cullinan diamond mine — Botswana · Real place or ruin
• The Tsodilo Hills — Botswana · Real place or ruin

Brazil 2

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

Chile 2

• Chuquicamata — Chile · Real place or ruin
• Sewell, the city of stairs — Chile · Real place or ruin

Colorado 2

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

Connecticut 2

• Gay City — Connecticut · Real place or ruin
• The Leatherman — Connecticut · Real place or ruin

Egypt 2

• Nabta Playa — Egypt · Real place or ruin
• Wadi Hammamat, the quarry road — 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

Greenland 2

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

Idaho 2

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

Japan 2

• Iwami Ginzan — Japan · Real place or ruin
• The Sado gold and silver mines — Japan · Real place or ruin

Kentucky 2

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

Mali 2

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

• Barn Bluff — Minnesota · Real place or ruin
• The Devil’s Kettle — Minnesota · Real place or ruin

Mongolia 2

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

Montana 2

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

Morocco 2

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

New Zealand 2

• The Martha mine at Waihi — New Zealand · Real place or ruin
• The Moeraki Boulders — New Zealand · 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

Ontario 2

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

South Africa 2

• The Big Hole at Kimberley — South Africa · Real place or ruin
• The Witwatersrand gold rush — South Africa · 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

Angola 1

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

Armenia 1

• Ani — Armenia · Real place or ruin

Bahamas 1

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

Bolivia 1

• Salar de Uyuni — Bolivia · Real place or ruin

British Columbia 1

• The Britannia mine, Howe Sound — British Columbia · Real place or ruin

Colombia 1

• Caño Cristales — Colombia · Real place or ruin

Czechia 1

• The Sedlec Ossuary — Czechia · Real place or ruin

Djibouti 1

• Lake Assal — Djibouti · Real place or ruin

Ecuador 1

• Zaruma — Ecuador · Real place or ruin

Ethiopia 1

• Dallol — Ethiopia · Real place or ruin

France 1

• The Carnac stones — France · Real place or ruin

Germany 1

• The Rammelsberg — Germany · Real place or ruin

Guatemala 1

• Tikal — Guatemala · Real place or ruin

Haiti 1

• The Citadelle Laferrière — Haiti · Real place or ruin

Honduras 1

• Copán — Honduras · Real place or ruin

Hungary 1

• Banská Štiavnica — Hungary · Real place or ruin

Indiana 1

• Angel Mounds — Indiana · Real place or ruin

Indonesia 1

• Borobudur — Indonesia · Real place or ruin

Iraq 1

• Babylon — Iraq · Real place or ruin

Jamaica 1

• Cockpit Country — Jamaica · Real place or ruin

Laos 1

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

Madagascar 1

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

Malta 1

• Ġgantija — Malta · Real place or ruin

Manitoba 1

• The petroforms of the Whiteshell — Manitoba · 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

• Livermore — New Hampshire · Real place or ruin

New Mexico 1

• Acoma Pueblo — New Mexico · 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 Carolina 1

• Cape Hatteras Light — North Carolina · 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

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

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

Spain 1

• Almadén, the mercury mine — Spain · 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

Sweden 1

• The Falun copper mine — Sweden · Real place or ruin

Tanzania 1

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

Texas 1

• Terlingua — Texas · 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 1

• The B Reactor — Washington · Real place or ruin

Washington DC 1

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

West Virginia 1

• Thurmond — West Virginia · Real place or ruin

Wisconsin 1

• Porter’s Mills — Wisconsin · 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 2

• Point Nemo — Real place or ruin
• The USS Monitor — Real place or ruin