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Featured route · Ancient Mystery
Şanlıurfa Province to Nevşehir Province, Turkey
Drive · 377 mi · 2 days · 2 stops
A two-day drive across Anatolia between two sites that hid in plain sight: one of the earliest known monuments on Earth, whose stone rings its excavators now think were filled in by debris sliding off the slopes above, and an underground city carved to hold thousands, sealed behind stone doors and forgotten for centuries.
Colorado, United States
A one-day sweep from the Rocky Mountain hotel that inspired The Shining, down through an airport whose murals and rumored underground tunnels have made it a conspiracy-theory landmark in its own right, ending with cliff divers and enchiladas at Denver's favorite restored cult-classic restaurant.
Arizona to New Mexico, United States
A three-day desert drive from one of America's largest mass UFO sightings to roadside strangeness, the birthplace of modern flying-saucer mythology, and the mesa said to conceal an underground base near Dulce.
Mexico City to State of Mexico, Mexico
Two days in and around Mexico City: a day on the canals of Xochimilco, birthplace of the centuries-old weeping-woman legend and home to a doll-covered island built by one grieving recluse, followed by a full day among the pyramids of a 2,000-year-old city whose builders the Aztecs themselves never knew.
Massachusetts, United States
A two-day drive through three Massachusetts stories: the 1692 witch-trial landscape of Salem, the still-unsolved Borden murders in Fall River, and the folklore-dense Hockomock Swamp at the heart of the Bridgewater Triangle.
New York, United States
Two days across New York State: from the Hudson Valley village that gave America its Headless Horseman, south into Manhattan to a windowless AT&T switching tower that The Intercept tied to NSA surveillance in 2016, and out to the tip of Long Island where a decommissioned Cold War base is rumored to have hidden a government mind-control program.
Mexico City, Mexico
A half day on foot across the center of Mexico City, from the church where thousands line up on the 28th of every month to petition the patron saint of lost causes, past the excavated Mexica temple the colonial city was built on top of, through the market that supplies the candles and herbs for every kind of devotion in this city, and out to the sidewalk shrine on Alfarería where a life-size Santa Muerte has stood since Halloween 2001.
Pennsylvania to New Jersey, United States
A day trip from Philadelphia's most infamous former prison, where visitors still report voices in empty cell blocks, into the Pine Barrens where a winged, cloven-hoofed legend has roamed since the 1700s, and out to the Jersey Shore for a six-story wooden elephant that's greeted visitors since 1881.
California, United States
A two-day desert drive between two homemade monuments to belief: a folk-art mountain built by hand over decades, and a wooden dome its builder said was designed on instructions from extraterrestrials.
West Virginia, United States
A half-day loop through Point Pleasant, West Virginia, retracing the three sites at the center of the most famous cryptid sighting wave in American folklore: the museum downtown, the abandoned TNT Area where it began, and the Silver Bridge site forever linked to the legend.
California, United States
Simon Rodia spent 33 years raising 17 structures of scrap steel and broken tile in his Watts backyard, then deeded the lot away and left Los Angeles without explaining any of it. Two more one-man monuments follow: a museum that will not say which of its exhibits are real, and two concrete dinosaurs off Interstate 10.
Minnesota, United States
A deputy's patrol car, windshield broken and both antennas bent back on an August night in 1979, is still on display in Warren. Three more Minnesota towns kept their own evidence: a runestone dated 1362, the oldest surviving Paul Bunyan and Babe, and a hotel whose new owner is a paranormal radio host.
England, United Kingdom
A two-day drive up England's east coast: from centuries of reported hauntings inside the Tower of London, north to the Suffolk airbase at the center of Britain's most thoroughly documented UFO case, and on to the Suffolk coast where a spectral black dog has been reported since the 16th century.