Mount Doom, the volcano where the One Ring was forged and eventually destroyed, looms large in the mythology of JRR Tolkien’s Middle Earth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1912 novel The Lost World imagines a lonely plateau in South America where dinosaurs and ape-men roam.
A roaring chasm known as the ‘Door to Hell’ or the ‘Gates of Hell’ has been burning for more than 50 years in north Turkmenistan. Though technically called the Darvaza gas crater.
Bermuda is known for its shorts, golf resorts, and pink sand beaches. The mystery of missing vessels is its most notorious trait.
There are a number of places where you can visit Santa’s grotto, but Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, Finland is the most established.
Scattered around a rocky headland on the north Cornish Coast, the spectacular sight of the ruins of Tintagel Castle is enough to rouse anyone’s imagination.
For thousands of years, stories of Atlantis, Plato's lost continent that plunged into the ocean overnight, have sparked many speculations about its location.
Homer’s vivid depiction of this impenetrable walled city – which was besieged for 10 years after Paris stole away Helen from Menelaus, King of Sparta – is an appealing one.