https://strangeroute.com/blog Travel guides, investigations, field reports, and new discoveries from the world's strangest places: hauntings, UFO cases, cryptids, and lost treasure. en-us Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:06:06 GMT https://strangeroute.com/blog/hand-dug-underground-places-you-can-walk-into https://strangeroute.com/blog/hand-dug-underground-places-you-can-walk-into Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:06:05 GMT Four places cut by hand into soft rock and open to visitors: Derinkuyu, the Longyou Caves, the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, and the Forestiere Underground Gardens, with what each visit involves. https://strangeroute.com/blog/sandy-irvine-camera-everest https://strangeroute.com/blog/sandy-irvine-camera-everest Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:05:08 GMT Noel Odell last saw Mallory and Irvine near the summit at 12:50pm on June 8, 1924. A century on, Irvine's boot has surfaced on the Rongbuk Glacier, and the Kodak he likely carried is still missing. https://strangeroute.com/blog/krampus-austria-where-to-see-runs https://strangeroute.com/blog/krampus-austria-where-to-see-runs Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT Six Krampus events around Salzburg and the Salzkammergut for the 2026 season, with dates, scale, and who each one suits, plus what the bells, masks, and birch rods mean and where to stand. https://strangeroute.com/blog/mike-tomlin-minecraft-city https://strangeroute.com/blog/mike-tomlin-minecraft-city Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:31:12 GMT Former Steelers coach Mike Tomlin has been building a Minecraft city for about 12 years. What his video tour shows, whether it will be released, and how to build your own. https://strangeroute.com/blog/fiesta-de-las-natitas-la-paz-november-8 https://strangeroute.com/blog/fiesta-de-las-natitas-la-paz-november-8 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT Every November 8, caretakers bring human skulls called ñatitas to La Paz's General Cemetery with flowers, coca, cigarettes, music, and thanks. The public festival is only one day in a year-round relationship. https://strangeroute.com/blog/villain-hitting-hong-kong-canal-road-flyover https://strangeroute.com/blog/villain-hitting-hong-kong-canal-road-flyover Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:51:14 GMT What happens at a villain-hitting stall under Hong Kong's Canal Road Flyover, how old the ritual is, and where to go for Jing Zhe on March 6, 2027. https://strangeroute.com/blog/ghost-stations-you-can-see-from-the-train https://strangeroute.com/blog/ghost-stations-you-can-see-from-the-train Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT Six subway stations that closed or never opened but still sit on working lines, from Buenos Aires's walled-off Pasco Sur to Madrid's Chamberí, which reopened as a museum. https://strangeroute.com/blog/the-beast-the-king-could-not-kill https://strangeroute.com/blog/the-beast-the-king-could-not-kill Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMT Parish registers, a notary's report on a rotting carcass, and four theories that each explain part of the Gévaudan attacks of 1764 to 1767. Plus the tower, the museum, and the memorials where the case is still argued. https://strangeroute.com/blog/lizzie-borden-forty-whacks-was-never-the-number https://strangeroute.com/blog/lizzie-borden-forty-whacks-was-never-the-number Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:20:15 GMT Netflix released eight episodes about Lizzie Borden this week. The building across town that holds the hatchet, the crime scene photographs, and the prosecutors' papers has been shut since July 2023. https://strangeroute.com/blog/poveglia-1793-plague-island https://strangeroute.com/blog/poveglia-1793-plague-island Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT What Venice documented at Poveglia: 12 plague deaths in 1793, a warning stone, and no ghost story until 2001. Plus how to reach the island's public half. https://strangeroute.com/blog/redwoods-secret-clubs-and-a-mountain-full-of-lemurians https://strangeroute.com/blog/redwoods-secret-clubs-and-a-mountain-full-of-lemurians Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMT Five Northern California mysteries: a gated redwood camp, a decaying bohemian colony, the heart of Bigfoot country, a volcano said to hide a city, and the mountain road where five men abandoned their car in 1978. https://strangeroute.com/blog/rabbit-island-was-erased-from-the-map https://strangeroute.com/blog/rabbit-island-was-erased-from-the-map Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMT 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. https://strangeroute.com/blog/how-reddit-helped-shape-strange-route https://strangeroute.com/blog/how-reddit-helped-shape-strange-route Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:37:03 GMT 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. https://strangeroute.com/blog/lost-treasure-joins-the-map https://strangeroute.com/blog/lost-treasure-joins-the-map Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:34:03 GMT 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. https://strangeroute.com/blog/patron-saints-of-lost-causes-4-stops-on-foot-across-mexico-city https://strangeroute.com/blog/patron-saints-of-lost-causes-4-stops-on-foot-across-mexico-city Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:41:58 GMT Four stops across the center of Mexico City, spanning a temple buried in the 1440s to a shrine set on a sidewalk in 2001. All four are still in use, and most of the route is walkable in a morning. https://strangeroute.com/blog/denver-airport-conspiracy-landmarks https://strangeroute.com/blog/denver-airport-conspiracy-landmarks Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:05:03 GMT Denver International Airport hosts one of the strangest sets of conspiracy landmarks in the country. Here is where they are, what to look for, and which famous ones are no longer on display. https://strangeroute.com/blog/colares-1977-operacao-prato https://strangeroute.com/blog/colares-1977-operacao-prato Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:42:28 GMT In 1977, residents of Colares reported burns and blood loss from lights they called the chupa-chupa. Brazil's Air Force investigated the reports; records of observations in Pará are held by the Arquivo Nacional. https://strangeroute.com/blog/10-mysterious-places-united-states-bucket-list https://strangeroute.com/blog/10-mysterious-places-united-states-bucket-list Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:30:00 GMT Ten American places where documented history and local legend meet. From Roswell to Point Pleasant, here is a curated bucket list for travelers drawn to the unexplained. https://strangeroute.com/blog/seven-new-strange-places-join-the-map https://strangeroute.com/blog/seven-new-strange-places-join-the-map Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:48:44 GMT 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. https://strangeroute.com/blog/area-51-what-you-can-actually-see https://strangeroute.com/blog/area-51-what-you-can-actually-see Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:55:48 GMT Area 51 draws travelers to a remote stretch of Nevada desert, where the base itself is out of sight from every public road. Here is what you can see, and how to get there safely. https://strangeroute.com/blog/welcome-to-strange-route https://strangeroute.com/blog/welcome-to-strange-route Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:19:07 GMT Strange Route is a growing, community-driven archive of real places connected to folklore, cryptids, hauntings, UFOs, and unexplained history that you can visit. Here is what we are building, and how to join in.