Travel guides, original investigations, field reports, and new discoveries from the world’s strangest places.
What Okunoshima's poison gas factory made from 1929 to 1945, why the island vanished from maps, which ruins you can see on the loop road, and how to plan the ferry, the walk, and the rabbits.
Strange Route started as a personal database of strange places to visit. Then one Reddit thread introduced us to places we never would have found on our own and helped turn the project into something others could contribute to.
Lost Treasure is the ninth category on Strange Route. Every entry carries a search zone, a split evidence column, and a verdict on how much of the story holds up.
Four stops across the center of Mexico City, spanning a temple buried in the 1440s to a shrine set on a pavement in 2001. All four are still in use, and most of the route is walkable in a morning.
Denver International Airport hosts one of the strangest sets of conspiracy landmarks in the country. Here is where they actually are, what to look for, and which famous ones are no longer on display.
In 1977, residents of Colares reported burns and blood loss from silent lights they called the chupa-chupa. Brazil's Air Force ran a months-long field operation and left 170 pages and 126 photographs behind.
Ten American places where documented history and enduring legend meet. From Roswell to Point Pleasant, here is a curated bucket list for travelers drawn to the unexplained.
Seven new destinations just landed in the archive, spanning four countries and two hemispheres: a bohemian ruin, a cursed tree, a breath in a bottle, a castle, a sacred bay, a field of hoodoos, and a weeping cross.
Area 51 draws travelers to a remote stretch of Nevada desert, but the reality of a visit is stranger and quieter than the legend. Here is what you can actually see, and how to get there safely.
StrangeRoute is a growing, community-driven archive of real places connected to folklore, cryptids, hauntings, UFOs, and unexplained history that you can actually visit. Here is what we are building, and how to join in.
