Sites by continent

Africa (2 sites)

Egypt

Giza & Saqqara
The Old Kingdom pyramid fields of Giza, Saqqara and Dahshur (c. 2700–2500 BCE) and the Great Sphinx.
30 tours

Abydos, Dendera & the Serapeum
The Osirion, the Dendera zodiac and the granite boxes of the Serapeum – favourites of "lost technology" debates.
22 tours

Asia (6 sites)

Cambodia

Angkor
Khmer temple-cities including Angkor Wat, Bayon and Phnom Kulen, mapped anew by LiDAR.
3 tours

Indonesia

Gunung Padang
A terraced megalithic site of columnar basalt in West Java – the centrepiece of Hancock’s "Ancient Apocalypse".
1 tours

Japan

Yonaguni Monument
Underwater terraced sandstone formation off Japan’s westernmost island – a famous dive site.
1 tours

Lebanon

Baalbek
Roman temple complex of Jupiter, Bacchus and Venus, standing on a podium with three ~800-tonne trilithon blocks.
1 tours

Turkey (Türkiye)

Göbekli Tepe & Karahan Tepe
Monumental T-pillar enclosures near Şanlıurfa, built by hunter-gatherers roughly 9600–8200 BCE.
13 tours

Derinkuyu & Cappadocia Underground Cities
Multi-level cities cut into volcanic tuff, deep enough to shelter thousands.
10 tours

Europe (7 sites)

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Bosnian “Pyramids” (Visoko)
Pyramid-shaped hills near Visoko promoted since 2005 as the world’s largest pyramids. Listed for completeness, but please note the evidence below.
1 tours

France

Carnac Stones
Over 3,000 Neolithic standing stones in rows, plus passage tombs such as Gavrinis, in Brittany.
1 tours

Ireland

Newgrange & Brú na Bóinne
A c. 3200 BCE passage tomb whose roof-box lets the winter-solstice sunrise light the inner chamber.
3 tours

Italy (Sardinia)

Sardinia’s Nuraghe & Giants’ Tombs
Thousands of Bronze Age stone towers, holy wells and the Monte d’Accoddi “pyramid”.
2 tours

Malta

Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum & Malta Temples
A rock-cut underground necropolis (c. 4000–2500 BCE) and some of the oldest free-standing stone temples on Earth.
7 tours

United Kingdom (England)

Stonehenge & Avebury
Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments on Salisbury Plain (c. 3000–1500 BCE) and the world’s largest stone circle at Avebury.
5 tours

United Kingdom (Scotland)

Orkney & the Ness of Brodgar
Skara Brae, Maeshowe, the Ring of Brodgar and the vast Ness of Brodgar temple complex (c. 3300–2400 BCE).
3 tours

North & Central America (1 sites)

Mexico

Teotihuacan
Pyramids of the Sun and Moon and the Avenue of the Dead – one of the largest cities of the ancient Americas.
3 tours

South America (5 sites)

Bolivia

Tiwanaku & Puma Punku
Andean ceremonial centre near Lake Titicaca (c. 500–1000 CE), famous for precisely cut andesite H-blocks.
8 tours

Peru

Sacsayhuamán & Cusco
Zig-zag walls of gigantic polygonal blocks above Cusco, plus nearby Tiwanaku and Puma Punku in Bolivia.
10 tours

Ollantaytambo
Sacred Valley fortress-temple with the six monoliths of rose rhyolite hauled from a quarry across the river.
3 tours

Nazca Lines & Palpa Geoglyphs
Hundreds of giant lines, trapezoids and animal figures etched into the desert of southern Peru by the Paracas and Nazca cultures, roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE. AI surveys since 2022 have found hundreds more.
3 tours

Paracas: Elongated Skulls & Candelabra
Desert peninsula south of Lima, home of the Paracas culture (about 800 BCE to 100 CE): elaborate textiles, the 180 m Candelabra geoglyph on a sea-facing hillside, and cemeteries famous for strongly elongated skulls, many on display in the private Juan Navarro (Paracas History) Museum.
6 tours

Oceania (2 sites)

Chile (Rapa Nui)

Easter Island (Rapa Nui)
Nearly 1,000 moai statues carved from the Rano Raraku quarry by Polynesian settlers.
6 tours

Micronesia

Nan Madol
Nearly 100 artificial islets of stacked basalt columns off Pohnpei, seat of the Saudeleur dynasty.
1 tours