🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Goldbusch
The Goldbusch is a great dolmen (German: Großdolmen), a type prehistoric grave site, that lies between Altensien and Moritzdorf on the German Baltic Sea island of Rügen.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Temple complex
Lake Tana Monasteries — Island Churches
Medieval Solomonic to Gondarine (1313–1748 CE) · Ethiopian Orthodox / Solomonic / Amhara-Tigray
Lake Tana (3,000 km², source of Blue Nile) hosts 37 medieval island and peninsula monasteries (14th–17th c) with circular thatched churches, vivid murals and parchment libraries.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Phantom island
Antillia – Phantom Island of Seven Cities
1424 Pizzigano – 1580 removal, but name lives · Portuguese–Genovese cartography + Visigoth legend
1424 Pizzigano rectangle at 35N 28W — seven bishop cities phantom that gave Antilles its name.
🇯🇪 Jersey · Archaeological wonder
Haut de la Garenne
The Jersey Accommodation and Activity Centre is a building just north of Gorey in the parish of Saint Martin, Jersey, in the Channel Islands.
🇬🇱 Greenland · Archaeological wonder
Grocland – Southern Phantom Greenland on Mercator
Renaissance (1569 Mercator – 1660) · Mercator–Ortelius cartographic
Mercator's duplicate southern Greenland tip as separate island Grocland — tip doubled south of real Greenland.
🇧🇪 Belgium · Archaeological wonder
Walraversijde
Walraversijde is an abandoned medieval fishing village on the Belgian coast, near Ostend. It was rediscovered in 1992 in a dune area, near a medieval dyke.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient village
Chenini — Berber Hilltop Ksar
Medieval Berber to Modern (12th c–present) · Berber (Cheninia) / Arab
Chenini is the hilltop Berber ksar 550 m on Djebel Dahar ridge 18 km W of Tataouine with troglodyte ghorfas (vaulted granary cells) stacked 4 stories on hill spur, white mosque and olive press.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
M'Zab Valley — Ibadite Fortified Ksar Valley
Medieval Ibadite (11th–14th c to present continuous) · Ibadite Berber (Mozabite) / Rustumid
M'Zab Valley is the intact 11th c Ibadite Pentapolis 480 m deep limestone hamada: 5 fortified ksour (Ghardaïa, Beni Isguen, El Atteuf, Melika, Bou Noura) each on hill with pyramidal mosque-minaret,…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Beautiful Festival of the Valley
ancient history · Ancient Egypt
The Beautiful Festival of the Valley (Egyptian: hb nfr n jnt; Arabic: عيد الوادي الجميل, romanized: Eid al-Wadi al-Jamil) was an ancient Egyptian festival, celebrated annually in Thebes (now Luxor),…
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Archaeological wonder
Ordu-Baliq
Ordu-Baliq (meaning "city of the court", "city of the army"; Chinese: 窩魯朵八里), also known as Mubalik and Karabalghasun, was the capital of the Uyghur Khaganate.
🇫🇷 France · Fortress
Argentomagus
The Roman city of Argentomagus was located in the Mersans plateau of central France, at the strategic point on the north bank of the river Creuse, where a Roman bridge once traversed.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Fajada Butte
Pueblo II–III Bonito 1000–1150 CE · Ancestral Pueblo (Chacoan)
Chacoan Sun Dagger butte: three slabs create dagger beam on spirals marking solstices and lunar standstill.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Buss Island – Phantom Faroes Bank off Greenland
Tudor cartographic (1578 – 1865) · Tudor English fishery
1578 herring buss phantom west of Galway — ship-type vs island confusion that put a bank at 52N 35W for 300 years.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Isog
Isog (possibly from Quechua isu skin sickness caused by a certain mite (mange), -q a suffix) is an archaeological site in Peru.
🇨🇦 Canada · Pyramid
222 Jarvis Street
222 Jarvis Street is an office building on Jarvis Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The inverted-pyramid-shaped building contains ten storeys and was completed in 1971.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Azenia (Attica)
Azenia (Ancient Greek: Ἀζηνία) was a deme of ancient Attica between Anaphlystus and Sunium. It was probably situated in the bay of which Sunium forms the eastern cape.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient village
Ksar Ouled Soltane — Fortified Granary
Early Modern Berber (1699–1900) · Berber (Cherkaoui) / Arab
Ksar Ouled Soltane is the best-preserved Berber fortified granary 1699 CE in Tataouine, 60 m square enclosure with 287 ghorfas (vaulted cells 4 stories high) stacked two courtyards.
🇨🇿 Czech Republic · Cave
Koněprusy Caves
Koněprusy Caves (Czech: Koněpruské jeskyně), also Zlatý kůň (Golden Horse), is a cave system in the Bohemian Karst in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Eshkaft-e Siahoo
Eshkaft-e Siahoo (Persian: اشکفت سیاهو), meaning "Black Cave" in the regional dialect, was used by Neolithic humans as a rock shelter between 12,000 and 10,000-years ago.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Hatun Misapata
Hatun Misapata or Misapata (Quechua hatun big, misa table, pata elevated place; above, at the top; edge, bank, shore, also spelled Qatun Mesapata or Mesapata) is an archaeological site in the…
🇪🇸 Spain · Archaeological wonder
Lazarraga Palace
The Lazarraga Palace (Basque: Lazarragatarren jauregia, Spanish: Palacio Lazarraga) is a palace located in Zalduondo, Álava, Basque Country, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1984.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Gladysvale Cave
Gladysvale Cave is a fossil-bearing breccia filled cave located about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) northeast of the well-known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Swartkrans and about…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Inca complex at Písac
The Inca complex at Pisac is a large Incan complex of agricultural terraces, residences, guard posts, watchtowers and a ceremonial/religious centre located along a mountain ridge above the modern…
🇰🇷 South Korea · Temple complex
Doseonsa
Doseonsa (Korean: 도선사) is a Buddhist temple of the Jogye Order in Seoul, South Korea, named after its supposed founder, Doseon.