Exploration mysteries

Isles of Scilly from space.

Exploration Mysteries: Lyonesse

“And ever pushed Sir Mordred, league by league, back...
map

Exploration Mysteries: Doggerland

Did you ever wonder how Britain separated from the...
Plain of Jars

Exploration Mysteries: Plain of Jars

Once upon a time, giants roamed the foothills of...
La Pérouse and King Louis XVI.

Exploration Mysteries: Jean Francois de Galaup

The mutiny on HMS Bounty overshadowed an even stranger...
illustration of lost city under ocean

Exploration Mysteries: Lemuria

I first heard of the name Lemuria from Ray...
planets crashing

Exploration Mysteries: Theia Impact

Almost since the beginning of the solar system, Earth...
Shambhala

Exploration Mysteries: Shambhala

It has many names -- Shangri-La, Eden, The Land...
Noah's ark

Exploration Mysteries: Noah’s Ark

It was one of the first stories I ever...
valley and mountains

Exploration Mysteries: Parvati Valley Disappearances

With its natural beauty and Lost Horizon feel that...
bog body

Exploration Mysteries: Bocksten Man

The Bocksten Man is one of the world's oldest...
crater

Natural Wonders: Patomskiy Crater

Deep in the forests of southeastern Siberia, the Patomisky...
ai-generated painting of a medieval woman

Exploration Mysteries: Tea Tephi

Only 66,000 search results: Most are obscure genealogy websites...
Excalibur

Exploration Mysteries: Who Was King Arthur?

Glastonbury Abbey was everything I had imagined it to...
Overtoun Bridge and House.

Overtoun Bridge: Where Dogs Jump To Their Death

Since the 1950s, a small, picturesque village in Scotland...
north sentinel island

Exploration Mysteries: North Sentinel Island

In the Andaman archipelago, in the Bay of Bengal,...
gold bar pile

Exploration Mysteries: The Nazi Gold Train

Could one of Europe's largest treasure troves be hidden...
lonely whale in the sea

Exploration Mysteries: The World’s Loneliest Whale

Since the 1980s, a lonely call has echoed through...
human skeleton

The Alien of the Atacama

Deep in the Atacama Desert, the once bustling mining...
titanic 3D image

New Photos of the Titanic as You’ve Never Seen It

You'd be forgiven for thinking — as I did...
Bluish underwater view of part of the monument.

Exploration Mysteries: Yonaguni Monument

Called “Japan’s Atlantis,” the Yonaguni Monument has provoked immense...
wooden tablet with lettering

Exploration Mysteries: Rongorongo, the Hieroglyphics of Easter Island

Because of Easter Island's remote location at the edge...
geoglyph

Exploration Mysteries: Marree Man

While flying between the Outback towns of Marree and...
ship stuck in ice

Exploration Mysteries: The SS Baychimo, 38 Years as a Ghost Ship

The SS Baychimo began as an ordinary cargo ship....
A submarine in choppy waters, with crew on deck

Exploration Mysteries: 1968 Submarine Disappearances

Writer Ian Fleming put it this way: "Once is...

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