Kortezubi, Spain
Cueva de Santimamiñe (Santimamiñe Cave)
An archeological treasure trove stumbled upon by a couple of children.
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Kortezubi, Spain
An archeological treasure trove stumbled upon by a couple of children.
Velarde, New Mexico
A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.
La Caña, Dominican Republic
Hundreds of pieces of ancient Taíno art cover the walls of this Caribbean cave system.
Pimiango, Spain
These primitive rock paintings include a very beloved depiction of a woolly mammoth.
Uppsala, Sweden
The official meeting point for the oddly named governing assembly of ancient Sweden.
Torslanda, Sweden
Sweden's southernmost prehistoric rock art is hidden just outside Gothenburg.
Littleton, Colorado
A prehistoric rock shelter that's literally in someone's backyard.
Roosevelt, Arizona
This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.
Alliat, France
Trek into the depths of the cave where 17,000-year-old paintings exist alongside 400-year-old graffiti.
Raisen, India
A giant repository of accidentally discovered cave paintings up to 30,000 years old.
Algeria
The abstract sandstone rock formations at this Algerian national park are rich with prehistoric art.
Holyoke, Massachusetts
A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.
Bantimurung, Indonesia
These 40,000-year-old stenciled hands are older than the famous cave art in France and Spain.
Los Angeles, California
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
Avella, Pennsylvania
This Pennsylvania cave holds evidence of the oldest known inhabitants of North America.
Duncans Mills, California
Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.
Larache, Morocco
A mythical garden that once grew the golden apples of wisdom is said to have existed in this ancient Moroccan city.
Tanumshede, Sweden
Despite the groans of archaeologists, this astounding groups of Bronze Age petroglyphs have been painted red for tourists.
Fremont, California
Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.
Lejre, Denmark
This Denmark theme park is part family attraction, part experimental archaeology project.
Dump, Belize
A devastated ruin in the south of Belize where British explorers claimed to unearth the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull.
Sundance, Wyoming
This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.
Hot Springs, South Dakota
This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.
Meknes, Morocco
Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.