Let’s share some fantastic, bizarre, and weird real world locations that would make perfect fodder for #ttrpg !
My own contribution is “Christ of the Abyss”, a bronze statue of Jesus that was deliberately sunk into the ocean off the coast of Italy in 1954. Two other statues were cast from the same mold later on, and sunk at Grenada and Florida.
I find the very concept of religious statues being sunk into the ocean fascinating - and, of course, in fantastic worlds people might have an easier time visiting such statues. Perhaps they have acquired some magic that allows them to breathe water for some time, or perhaps they are naturally amphibious. Or natural water breathers - perhaps there is some trade deal with surface dwellers where land-based religious items are created for aquatic civilizations that they cannot manufacture themselves.
What other such weird locations do you know of?
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Potala Palace in Tibet
The Sumela monastery in Turkey’s black sea province of Trabzon
Mount Thor in Canada, featuring Earth’s greatest vertical drop of 1,200 m (4,100 ft), with the cliff overhanging at an average angle of 105 degrees (15 degrees from vertical)
Another candidate: The Centralia Mine Fire, an underground coal seam fire that has been going for sixty years, and which could continue to burn for 250 further years!
I wonder how dwarves or other subterranean civilizations would deal with something like this?
The Plain of Jars. Thousands of giant stone jars on a plateau in Laos. Many contain bodies. No one is entirely sure who built them or why.
