The Archive of Mysterious Places
The full archive. Every strange place we've mapped and documented. Pick a category or just start exploring.
Wycliffe Well
A remote roadhouse in Australia's Northern Territory that billed itself as the "UFO capital of Australia" due to a long local history of reported sightings, complete with alien-themed murals and memorabilia.
Read the file →- California, United States♆
Alcatraz
The federal penitentiary on a San Francisco Bay island whose 1962 "impossible" escape was never definitively solved, layered on top of decades of guard and visitor reports of ghostly cellblock activity.
- Pacific Ocean (Howland Island vicinity), United States⚠
Amelia Earhart's Disappearance
Pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart vanished with navigator Fred Noonan over the central Pacific in 1937 while attempting to reach tiny Howland Island during a round-the-world flight — a disappearance that triggered one of the largest air-and-sea searches of its era and has never been conclusively solved.
- Nevada, United States⊙
Area 51 / Rachel, Nevada
A restricted U.S. Air Force facility in the Nevada desert, publicly acknowledged only in 2013, whose decades of classified aircraft testing fueled UFO lore amplified by Bob Lazar's 1989 claims about reverse-engineered alien technology.
- Vermont, United States⚠
Bennington Triangle
An area of southwestern Vermont, centered on Glastenbury Mountain, within which a cluster of people went missing between 1945 and 1950 — a string of disappearances later popularized by author Joseph A. Citro.
- Florida (representative point), United States⚠
Bermuda Triangle
A loosely-defined stretch of the western Atlantic between Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico, popularly associated with a string of unexplained ship and aircraft disappearances since the mid-20th century.
- California, United States☾
Bigfoot / Sasquatch
North America's most famous cryptid — a large, hair-covered bipedal creature reported across the Pacific Northwest for over a century, anchored by the 1958 footprint discovery that gave it its name and the 1967 Patterson–Gimlin film that remains its most-debated piece of evidence.
- England, United Kingdom☉
Black Shuck
A legendary spectral black dog said to roam the coastline and countryside of East Anglia, England, with the earliest written account describing a fearsome 1577 incident at churches in Bungay and Blythburgh.
- Massachusetts, United States☉
Bridgewater Triangle
A roughly 200-square-mile area of southeastern Massachusetts, centered on the Hockomock Swamp, associated with a dense cluster of reported phenomena — from Wampanoag legends of the "Pukwudgie" to UFO sightings and a string of unsolved cattle mutilations in the 1970s.
- Texas, United States⚑
Cadillac Ranch
A public art installation along old Route 66 in Amarillo, Texas, consisting of ten vintage Cadillacs half-buried nose-down in a field, created in 1974 and continuously repainted by visitors ever since.