Manitou Springs, Colorado
Manitou Cliff Dwellings
These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.
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Manitou Springs, Colorado
These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.
Nanwei, Micronesia
The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.
Peru
These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.
Ollantaytambo, Peru
Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.
Callahuanca, Peru
A mysterious pre-Incan ruin believed to have miraculous healing powers.
Mariscal Cáceres Province, Peru
These delicate ruins need more tourists to keep them from fading away.
Palenque, Mexico
An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.
Champa, Mexico
The ruins of an ancient Mayan city, beautifully preserved and only accessible by boat.
Cusco, Peru
The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.
Mexico
A hidden treasure of an abandoned city lies deep in the jungles of Campeche, Mexico.
Moundsville, West Virginia
The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.
Fremont, California
Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.
Barumini, Italy
This one-of-a-kind archeological site is home to strange prehistoric ruins, the original use of which is still a mystery.
Guapán, Ecuador
Ecuador's largest Incan ruins show evidence of sophisticated irrigation and diplomacy among the ancient builders.
Nageezi, New Mexico
A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.
Dump, Belize
A devastated ruin in the south of Belize where British explorers claimed to unearth the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull.
Çumra, Turkey
The largest Neolithic ruins in the world hide a notably clean prehistoric metropolis.