Places Edited by aribrown

White llama terraces dazzle in Peru's "other Machu Picchu."

The Pope’s secret escape route.

A pre-Columbian ceremonial and astronomical site built by the Taino Indians.

Venture into the hideout of one of Hong Kong's legendary pirates.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

An abandoned Incan construction project left behind a mysterious "doorway."

1513 Turkish world map, full of European state secrets and snarky commentary.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

"The country that ate itself."

This uninhabited volcanic island is the most remote in the world.

Underwater volcanic eruption forms new island off the coast of Tonga.

Central America's deepest lake is actually a volcanic caldera, surrounded by three volcanoes.

A thin pane of glass keeps visitors from sliding off this futuristic skywalk.

A bizarre collection of gifts to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il from the despots of the world.

The world’s most primitive form of bungee jumping.

A nuclear bunker built to shelter the politicians and important people of Scotland in case of nuclear attack.

Tracks of ceratosaurus and Coelophysis rhodesiensis tracks can be found fossilized in the sandstone near Mt. Etjo.

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

The last fully functional fortress of Germany's World War II Atlantikwall.

This gravesite in the Amazon Rainforest was left behind by a failed Third Reich expedition.

Roman-era ships unearthed...

A chunk of the "true cross" is held in this small Portuguese church where modern day exorcisms are said to be common place.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.