Dead Explorers

The biologist's fossilized headstone was meant to reflect his love of nature. Its, ahem, unusual shape is probably just a coincidence.

The remains of a monument in the remote Kazakhstani desert dedicated to the only men to die in outer space, the crew of the Soyuz 11 rocket.

After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

The West's first incursion into the Afghan world lies buried beneath a military base.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

Named after the Goddess of Harvests, Annapurna is the deadliest member of the Eight-thousanders club.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

This 19th century brick building in Brooklyn stands out like the anachronistic landmark that it is.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A small statue of child Jesus given by Magellan in 1521

A crypt believed by many Congolese to be a center of black magic.

This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.