The odd side of Romania.

Evidence-backed unusual places in Romania, grouped with maps, original sources and useful geographic context. These are crawlable research records, not an indiscriminate directory: reports without enough depth remain available for exploration but are excluded from search indexing.

METEORITE LANDING · NASA Meteorite Landings

Buschhof meteorite

Recorded meteorite landing

A L6 meteorite recorded as an observed fall with a recorded mass of 5,000 g.

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Kakowa meteorite

Recorded meteorite landing

A L6 meteorite recorded as an observed fall with a recorded mass of 577 g.

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Mezö-Madaras meteorite

Recorded meteorite landing

A L3.7 meteorite recorded as an observed fall with a recorded mass of 22,700 g.

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Mocs meteorite

Recorded meteorite landing

A L5-6 meteorite recorded as an observed fall with a recorded mass of 300,000 g.

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Ohaba meteorite

Recorded meteorite landing

A H5 meteorite recorded as an observed fall with a recorded mass of 16,250 g.

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Pleşcoi meteorite

Recorded meteorite landing

A L5-6 meteorite recorded as an observed fall with a recorded mass of 6,913 g.

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Sopot meteorite

Recorded meteorite landing

A OC meteorite recorded as an observed fall with a recorded mass of 958 g.

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Tauti meteorite

Recorded meteorite landing

A L6 meteorite recorded as an observed fall with a recorded mass of 21,000 g.

Map, evidence and context →UNESCO GLOBAL GEOPARK · UNESCO Global Geoparks

Haţeg Country UNESCO Global Geopark

RO

Follow the “Dinosaur Valley” trail, beginning at the House of Dwarf Dinosaurs and leading to the “La Scoaba” geosite, where the first dinosaur fossils in the geopark were discovered. The tra

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Buzău Land UNESCO Global Geopark

RO

Explore the salt-karst caves of Buzău Land, including some of the longest and deepest in the world, where fossils of Ice Age plants and animals have been preserved.Hike one of the geopark’s

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Leprosery of Tichilești

Romania

leper hosiptal in Tichilești, Tulcea County, Romania

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