Traveling may be thrilling, exhausting, dangerous, mind-opening and, occasionally, boring. But more than anything else, going to faraway places is easier talked about than done. Thus, we find history riddled with quiet rumors and full-fledged scandals surrounding claims of heroic journeys that turned out to be tales woven with lies.
Other adventurers' claims, while not known hoaxes, have dwelt in the limbo of critical doubt for years or decades. Here's a listing of some of the best and least known of the world's travel hoaxes.
(via Neatorama)/
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