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?
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?
@juergen_hubert
Fantasy dwarves would, I suspect, find some way to divert a tremendous amount of water (or sewage!) into the fire zone in order to quench the oxygen-free burning.
@juergen_hubert@ttrpg.network @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social I remember learning about this as a child — many decades ago