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  2. Machu Picchu - Wikipedia

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    Machu Picchu[ a ] is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft). [ 9 ] Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", [ 10 ] it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire. It is located in the Machupicchu District within the Urubamba Province [ 11 ] above ...

  3. List of reportedly haunted locations - Wikipedia

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    Beechworth Lunatic Asylum in Beechworth, Victoria is reportedly haunted by several ghosts of departed patients. Open from 1867 to 1995, it has appeared in several books, television shows, and documentaries, including A.C.T. Paranormal. Ghost tours run nightly. [6][7] BuzzSaw roller coaster in Dreamworld.

  4. Stonehenge - Wikipedia

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    Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury.It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones, held in place with mortise and tenon joints, a feature unique among ...

  5. 11 Bizarre and Mysterious Historical Sites (PHOTOS) - AOL

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    macha.cl/Flickr Alien conspiracies, unexplained ancient objects and mysterious disappearances; there's no need to look to fiction for your fix of mystery when real life has it

  6. List of reported UFO sightings - Wikipedia

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    Most commonly reported shapes in UFO sightings gathered by the National UFO Reporting Center Online Database (NUFORC) [1] This is a list of notable reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and related claims of close encounters or abductions. UFOs are generally considered to include any perceived aerial phenomenon that cannot be ...

  7. List of mythological places - Wikipedia

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    A mysterious island with the ability to appear and disappear using tides in Russian mythology. Chinvat Bridge: The sifting bridge, [21] which separates the world of the living from the world of the dead in Zoroastrianism. City of the Caesars: A city between a mountain of gold and another of diamonds supposed to be situated in Patagonia. Cockaigne

  8. Çatalhöyük - Wikipedia

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    Seated goddess flanked by two felines, leopards or lionesses. A feature of Çatalhöyük are its female figurines. Mellaart, the original excavator, argued that these carefully made figurines, carved and molded from marble, blue and brown limestone, schist, calcite, basalt, alabaster, and clay, represented a female deity.

  9. Jungfrau Park - Wikipedia

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    Jungfrau Park. Jungfrau Park is an amusement park located near Interlaken, Switzerland. It opened as the Mystery Park in 2003, and closed in November 2006 due to financial difficulties and low turnout. The park was designed by Erich von Däniken, and consisted of seven pavilions, each of which featured one of several great "mysteries" of the world.