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Many people love to travel to unusual places. Check out these 20 places full of secrets, where mystery is what catches your attention.
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Located in the Bay of Bengal, India, North Sentinel Island has approximately 500 inhabitants who live isolated on the island. The Sentinelese have been present there for 60 thousand years. Due to its isolation, the island has no recorded images of its interior.
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The Bermuda Triangle in the Caribbean is famous for missing ships and planes. The magnetism of the place would influence the functioning of compasses and other equipment, but there is no consensus on this, which motivates theories about the place.
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The Gate of Pluto, in Greco-Roman mythology, was a temple dedicated to the god Pluto, the god of death. Located in Türkiye, the area has a high concentration of carbon dioxide, which would eventually kill people and animals.
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One of the most mysterious places in Brazil, Pedra da Gávea is located in Rio de Janeiro. On its rocks there are inscriptions that do not seem natural. One story goes that the Stone may have been the tomb of an ancient Phoenician king.
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Used as a place of isolation for the sick in ancient and medieval times, the island of Proveglia, Italy, also hosted a psychiatric hospital in the 20th century. Legends say that, among the vegetation, it is possible to find bones of former patients of the institute.
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A well on Oak Island, Canada, was the scene of a treasure hunt. Poço do Dinheiro was found by a young explorer, who ventured there with a group of friends. But neither they nor any other explorer ever found this treasure.
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Located 35 kilometers off the coast of Sao Paulo, Ilha da Queimada Grande has banned access. The Jararaca-ilhoa snake lives there, whose venom is deadly. Having proliferated abundantly on the island, estimates indicate that there is one snake per square meter.
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Inside Death Valley, in the United States, are the rocks of Racetrack Playa. These rocks leave tracks on the ground with no indication that they have been dragged, some weighing up to 300 kilos. There is no video of this phenomenon.
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The nuclear accident at the Chernobyl power plant in 1986 forced the inhabitants of Pripyat to quickly abandon their homes, turning the place into a ghost town that still retains the belongings of its former inhabitants.
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The moai, the gigantic statues of Easter Island, Chile, are a great mystery. Its length underground is not known for certain and there is no evidence of its creators. The island itself is an isolated place, being the last frontier of Latin America.
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Area 51, located in the middle of the Nevada desert, is the United States’ top secret military base. Its existence mainly drives theories about extraterrestrials, which have already been depicted in books, films and series.
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Still on the subject of Ufology, another point that stands out for this reason is Aksai Chin, in the Himalaya mountains. The few residents of the region say that flying objects are often seen there, which would make Aksai Chin a sort of UFO airport.
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In 2011, the city of Fukushima, Japan witnessed a tsunami that hit the city’s nuclear power plant and caused an accident. Like Chernobyl, Fukushima was evacuated and became a ghost town, where only the belongings of the former inhabitants remain.
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Stonehenge is an archaeological site in England, built 5,000 years ago. Initially the monument may have functioned as a clock, trying to predict the birth of the Sun and Moon, but little is known about its origin.
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35 thousand volumes distributed over 84 kilometers of shelves. This is the library that houses the Vatican Archives and the secrets of the Catholic Church. Access is limited to a small group of people and most documents are confidential.
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The Bimini Road, located off the island of Bimini in the Bahamas, features a curious geological formation. It is made up of 800 meters of limestone rocks. The best-known legend has it that the road was built by the inhabitants of Atlântida, the city lost in the ocean.
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The Lascaux Caves are home to humanity’s first cave paintings, dating back 17,000 years. In them you can see oxen and other animals of the time. The site has been closed to visitors since 1950, as visitors were noted to be interfering with the paintings.
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The Naska lines, located in the desert of the same name, in Peru, are designs created in the terrain of the area. They would have been made by the Naska people between 400 and 650 BC. Despite the historical explanation, there is the theory that the drawings are of extraterrestrial origin.
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Originating from a volcanic eruption off the coast of Iceland in 1963, the island of Surtsey rose 130 meters below the sea line and emerged after five days. Its geological formation is recent and its terrain is still undergoing transformation. Therefore, human presence on site is prohibited.
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The Ghost Fleet is located in Singapore and is a spot where ships are abandoned for no apparent reason. From 1930, with the recession, the boats were forgotten and the number continued to increase over the years.
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