Queimada Grande Island: the "most dangerous island in the world" is in Brazil, and almost no one can visit it
Queimada Grande Island, São Paulo coast, Brazil, 9,000 BC Partly explained
Enigmatic places
Temples older than writing, cities on the sea and under the ground: real places that still hold their questions.
Göbekli Tepe: the temple built 7,000 years before the pyramids, by hunters without farming
Göbekli Tepe, Şanlıurfa, Turkey, 9,500 BC Partly explained
The Nazca Lines: who drew them, why, and why they only make sense from above
Pampa de Nazca, between Nazca and Palpa, Peru, 100 BC Partly explained
The Great Pyramid of Giza: hidden chambers, extreme precision and what modern scanners found
Giza, Egypt, 2,560 BC Partly explained
Dwarka: the city the Mahabharata says sank, and what archaeology found in the sea
Dwarka and Gulf of Khambhat, Gujarat, India, 1,500 BC Under debate
Nan Madol: the city built on the ocean that the world forgot for centuries
Nan Madol, Pohnpei, Micronesia, 1100 Partly explained
Derinkuyu: the 18-level underground city hidden beneath an ordinary house
Derinkuyu, Cappadocia, Turkey, 800 BC Partly explained
Easter Island: the moai, the collapse of a civilization and the script no one has deciphered
Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile, 1722 Partly explained
The Zone of Silence: the Mexican desert where, legend says, radios die, compasses fail and meteorites fall in droves
Bolsón de Mapimí, Durango, Mexico, 1970 Partly explained
Sacsayhuamán: the stones that survived the conquest because they were too big to steal
Sacsayhuamán, Cusco, Peru, 1438 Partly explained