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Re: Real Locations that should be fantasy

 

Thanks to John Desmarais for finding this and posting it to the Pulp HERO forum' date=' but IMO it works just as well here: Portal to mythical Mayan underworld found in Mexico.

 

I've been reading up on this as well but from the Delta Green List. It'll make its way onto the list. I still have a number of entries to catch up on.

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How about this' date=' Mont Saint-Michel, located on a tidal island on the Normandy coast of France. I hate relying on Wikipedia for information but here it is.

 

Wiki is no problem, we are talking about inspiration for fantasy games.

 

I don't think anyone's mentioned the Catacombs of Paris yet. Strange.

 

Anyhoo, here they are. http://www.catacombes-de-paris.fr/english.htm

 

And here. http://www.triggur.org/cata/

 

And plans and such here. http://www.catacombs.explographies.com/

 

Thanks, the links will come in handy.

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As suggested I bring you:

 

Absolutely very cool.

 

http://www.china.org.cn/english/culture/55407.htm

http://www.china.org.cn/english/travel/71037.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_coffins

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_curiosity/2004-10/26/content_62632.htm

 

Media

YouTube

 

These will absolutely be used in one of my books.

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The Spectacular Sea of Salt: Salar De Uyuni

 

The world’s largest salt flats, Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, is an unearthly place that has to be seen to be believed. Join us on a trip to one of the strangest areas the third rock from the sun has to offer.

 

Have you ever wanted to visit another planet but don’t quite have the wallet power (or for that matter the decades it may take for commercial space flight to Mars to become available)? If you want and out of this world experience you could try, as an alternative, Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. It is one of the landscapes on planet Earth where you may feel that you are somewhere else in the universe entirely.

 

http://trifter.com/caribbean-latin-america/bolivia/the-spectacular-sea-of-salt-salar-de-uyuni/

 

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I've got a couple I've used in previous games. They are most in the context of their geography.

Civita di Bagnoregio is on a hill overlooking the road to Rome and Hohenwerfen commands two major valleys in the alps.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civita_di_Bagnoregio

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burg_Hohenwerfen

 

This page has a panorama view of Hohenwerfen

http://www.panoworld.info/salzachtal-panorama-pictures.html

 

 

Also, there's a place in Death Valley where rocks slide around.

http://geosun.sjsu.edu/paula/rtp/intro.html

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Maybe not as titanic as some of the other links, but still: A place that almost feels like an Elven Realm when you are there...

 

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe

 

More pictures at German-language Wikipedia

 

Only to show the main attraction, the Octogon with the Hercules statue (which is 8 meters (25 feet) tall) and the Cascades:

 

WasserspieleKasselNachts_kasselgalerie_de.jpg

 

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I've proposed doing a column at RPGnet on these places and I am in the midst of writing the second half of the first one. Comments and suggestions would be appreciated...

 

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I've been researching undergrounds lately for a writing project. I seriously need to google up some more images of this!

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That series is on the History channel, Cities of the Underworld: http://www.history.com/cities-of-the-underworld

 

Cool stuff there.

 

Yeah, the stuff I am doing is more of a history + gaming slant. That doesn't take any cool factor from the show. I did not see any Moscow episodes after taking a gander. I am need to look at a few of them when I hit other locations.

 

I've been researching undergrounds lately for a writing project. I seriously need to google up some more images of this!

 

Some of them are awesome just watch for computer viruses! I hit one nasty Russian site a few days ago -- unrelated to this search but still. There are 2-4 sites that are basically nothing but pictures if you Google "Moscow Underground" plus a mind-blowing site about their subway stations which are much more magnificent than ours.

 

I posted part II of the Moscow piece and will be moving on to the next location tonight. I'll shoot for one location every week.

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Very very cool. :thumbup: The living bridges were amazing. Make sure you follow the link to the Hobbit House at the end of the article (http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/10/environmentally-friendly-houses.html).

 

Good find. Repped.

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