

Many thanks to Linda for allowing me to excerpt from her book, Mucalinda: Self-Portraits + Self-Reflection. Linda Troeller will teach 'Self-Portraiture and Poetry' with Maureen Alsop in Palm Springs, California, April 2-5, 2012. Below are 25 destinations that are home to strange, mysterious, and sometimes downright eerie things. Tenerife Photography Festival, Canary Islands, Spain.

And there are small hollow objects dating from the 2nd or 3rd centuries AD, but researchers cannot work out why they exist.īut it’s not just objects of historical importance that are interesting caves filled with locks of female hair, and a small island which is home to thousands of dolls, are the stuff that nightmares are made of. For example, there is a manuscript that dates back to the 15th or 16th century, but its text has not been decoded. The one thing most people can agree on is there are few things as unsettling as those that are shrouded in mystery, and sometimes, these objects even baffle the most brilliant minds. Imagine finding a strange quartzite buried deep beneath the soil, from a stone that is not native to the area? Or an ancient computer with technology so advanced that scientists would typically date it centuries after it’s creation.

The world may be filled with places of natural beauty, but there are also some very weird objects that exist, which sometimes offer no explanation about how they came to be and their purpose.
