Ancient and mysterious places in United States

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🇺🇸 United States · Cave

Danger Cave

Great Basin Desert Culture (9000 BCE – 500 CE) · Desert Archaic / Fremont

Danger Cave in Utah, United States is a Great Basin Desert Culture (9000 BCE – 500 CE) cave attributed to Desert Archaic / Fremont culture.

🇺🇸 United States · Temple complex

Chet Holifield Federal Building

The Chet Holifield Federal Building, colloquially known as "the Ziggurat Building", is a United States government building in Laguna Niguel, California.

🇺🇸 United States · Temple complex

BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Chicago

The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir of Chicago, Illinois is a traditional Hindu place of worship built by the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha.

🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village

Cactus Hill

Pre-Clovis to Clovis · Pre-Clovis (Cactus Hill)

Sandy terrace pre-Clovis site (16,000 BCE) with blades beneath Clovis on Nottoway River, Virginia.

🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder

Bonnet Carré Spillway

The Bonnet Carré Spillway is a flood control operation in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Located in St.

🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder

Ashland Dam and Spillway

The Ashland Dam and Spillway is a historic site at the north end of Ashland Reservoir in Ashland State Park in Ashland, Massachusetts.

🇺🇸 United States · Temple complex

Gordon Strong Automobile Objective

The Gordon Strong Automobile Objective was a proposed planetarium, restaurant, and scenic overlook designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the top of Sugarloaf Mountain in Maryland.

🇺🇸 United States · Temple complex

Cleveland Buddhist Temple

The Cleveland Buddhist Temple is a Pure Land (Jodo Shinshu) community currently meeting at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Cleveland in Shaker Heights, Ohio.

🇺🇸 United States · Rock art

Sego Canyon — Three Cultures Panel

Archaic Barrier (6000 BCE) → Fremont (600 CE) → Ute (1800 CE) · Barrier Canyon → Fremont → Ute layered

Sego three cultures described by Castleton 1970s, highway-visible 14 m panel with 75 figures.

🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village

Acoma Pueblo — Sky City Mesa Keresan

Acoma Keres (1150–present mesa; 1629 mission) · Keresan Acoma (Sky City)

Acoma excavated by M. Ellis 1960s rim, 1150 occupation Enchanted Mesa ancestor, 1598 Spanish battle.

🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Poverty Point (Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point)

Late Archaic 1700–1100 BCE (peak 1500–1200 BCE) · Poverty Point culture

Late Archaic earthwork complex (1700–1100 BCE) with six concentric C-shaped ridges (1.2 km outer diameter) and six mounds, including 22 m-high Mound A – one of largest Archaic earthworks in North…

🇺🇸 United States · Mound

Lewiston Mound

Lewiston Mound is a prehistoric burial mound built by the indigenous peoples of the Hopewell tradition. It is located on the grounds of the Earl W.

🇺🇸 United States · Temple complex

Hindu Temple of Greater Cincinnati

Hindu Temple of Greater Cincinnati or HTGC, is a Hindu Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio. It serves the Hindu Population of the Cincinnati Metropolitan Area.