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Talbot von Sregor

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  • New York City

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The watchtower and the lighthouse

Massa Lubrense, Italy

Punta Campanella

A crumbling watchtower and a lighthouse overlooks the site believed to be the Sirens' cliff in the "Odyssey."

Necromanteion

Mesopotamos, Greece

Necromanteion of Ephyra

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

Licosa Island

Castellabate, Italy

Licosa Island

According to legend, this small island was home to one of the sirens met by Ulysses in the Odyssey.

The Lucifernum

Bruges, Belgium

The Lucifernum

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

Image permission granted by the Grand Lodge of New York

New York, New York

Chancellor Robert R Livingston Masonic Library

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

The Grand Lodge of France

Paris, France

The Grand Lodge of France

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

Exterior of the Rossend Arús Masonic Library.

Barcelona, Spain

Rossend Arús Masonic Library

A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.

Masonic Temple of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Masonic Temple of Philadelphia

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

Statue of William Morgan

Batavia, New York

Morgan Monument

A towering cemetery monument honors a man who threatened to expose the Freemasons and paid with his life.

Statue of George Washington

Alexandria, Virginia

The George Washington Masonic National Memorial

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

The House of the Temple.

Washington, D.C.

House of the Temple

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

Zedekiah's Cave

East Jerusalem, Israel

Zedekiah's Cave

An ancient quarry rediscovered by a dog and claimed by biblical kings, a German cult, and the Freemasons.

The Wreck of the King Philip.

San Francisco, California

The Wreck of the King Philip

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

The tree surgeon buried in a tree. (Atlas Obscura)

Carthage, Arkansas

Tree Surgeon Buried in a Tree

Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.

Learned Pond

Framingham, Massachusetts

Learned Pond

The notorious pirate William Kidd might have buried his treasure around this local pond.

Kite aerial photograph of the Multivallate Ringfort at Rathrá, Co Roscommon, Ireland.

Tulsk, Ireland

Rathcroghan

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

Yellow dashes mark the old tunnel

Washington, D.C.

FDR's Bomb Shelter

The first presidential bomb shelter was located in an old vault under the Treasury, connected to the White House via tunnel.

Fort Foote Rodman Guns

Fort Washington, Maryland

Fort Foote Rodman Guns

A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.

Cher Ami in the Smithsonian

Washington, D.C.

Cher Ami

A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.

Admiral Grace Hopper's bug.

Washington, D.C.

Grace Hopper's Bug

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.

Boy Scout Memorial

Washington, D.C.

Boy Scout Memorial

The innocent intentions of this monument are somewhat lost in the sculpture's muscled imagery.

Lamond House

Alexandria, Virginia

Lamond House

Hidden in the forest atop a long, winding driveway is this stately home.

Washington Monument Access Hatch

Washington, D.C.

Washington Monument Access Hatch

Daredevil repair workers can worm their way out the access hatch, loop ropes over the apex and rappel down the monument.

This stone depicts the Templars of Honor and Temperance, Supreme Council: Marble depicting alternatives to alcohol, including ice cream.

Washington, D.C.

Washington Monument Commemorative Stones

Ruins from the Parthenon and petrified wood line the interior of one of the world's most famous monuments.

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