When it comes to searching for lost cities, most explorers perform painstaking research followed by sometimes years of planning before starting their hunt. Good examples of this can be seen in the search for ancient Troy in modern-day Turkey, and Tikal in Guatemala. But some of the most famous lost cities were not found after years of methodical searches, but were instead uncovered by accident, by people who sometimes didn’t even realize what they had found. Here are five notable lost cities that were rediscovered by someone who just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
