Locations visited by the Oak Island team
Oak Island Research Locations
Every site the team has investigated beyond Nova Scotia — Templar commanderies, medieval churches, and archives across 10 countries, documented from 51 on-location visits
Abbey of Alet-les-Bains
Alet-les-Bains, Aude, France
Medieval abbey built on the foundations of a Roman temple, situated 7 miles north of Rennes-le-Château in southern France. A carvin...
Arni Magnusson Institute for Icelandic Studies
Reykjavik, Reykjavik, Iceland
Iceland's principal research institute for the preservation and study of medieval manuscripts, housing one of the world's most significan...
Bianzano Castle
Bianzano, Bergamo, Italy
Thirteenth-century castle in the province of Bergamo, northern Italy, believed by researchers to have served as the Italian headquarters ...
Brooklyn Nova Scotia
Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, Canada
Historic South Shore community formerly known as Newport, situated just miles from Oak Island. Stone carvings found in Liverpool, Nova Sc...
Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS)
Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia, Canada
Nova Scotia Community College campus in Lawrencetown housing rare historical documents. Research into Acadian genealogical records reveal...
Château de la Rochefoucauld
La Rochefoucauld, Charente, France
Ancestral seat of the De la Rochefoucauld family in Charente, France, one of the oldest noble families in Europe with documented ties to ...
Church of Fonte Arcada
Fonte Arcada, Póvoa de Lanhoso, Portugal
Church in the parish of Fonte Arcada in Póvoa de Lanhoso, northern Portugal, where the Knights Templar received one of their earliest Eu...
Church of Santa Maria Nuova
Viterbo, Roma, Italy
Medieval church in Viterbo, built in 1080, containing carved Templar symbols including four-dot crosses and Latin inscriptions that Alex ...
Dartmouth Heritage Museum (Evergreen House)
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Once the home of celebrated Nova Scotian folklorist Dr. Helen Creighton, a distant relative of Augustus Oliver Creighton whose Halifax bo...
Fontana Grande
Viterbo, Roma, Italy
Iconic 13th-century fountain in the medieval quarter of Viterbo, a city in central Italy that served as temporary papal headquarters and ...
Fort Point Museum
La Have, Nova Scotia, Canada
National Historic Site at the mouth of the LaHave River, just 20 miles from Oak Island. Originally established as a French stronghold in ...
Halifax Club
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Historic gentlemen's club built in 1862 by Scottish-Canadian stonemason George Lang, where a member reportedly told his son in 1982 that ...
Hyde Park Roosevelt Estate
Hyde Park, New York, United States of America
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York, where archival documents revealed the specific treasure...
Kilwinning Abbey
Kilwinning, Scotland, United Kingdom
Tironensian monastery founded around 1162 in Ayrshire, Scotland. The Tironensian order were expert builders of underground tunnel systems...
Kverkarhellir Cave
Seljaland, Southern Region, Iceland
Human-made cave in southern Iceland dating to the 9th century, carved into the volcanic landscape by an Irish Christian monastic order ar...
L'Anse aux Meadows
L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, Canada
UNESCO World Heritage Site and the only confirmed Norse settlement in North America, scientifically dated to 1021 AD. Located on the nort...
Lordly House Museum
Lordly House Museum, Nova Scotia, Canada
The Lordly House Museum is a historic house museum located in the seaside village of Chester, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Lunenburg Academy
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada
National Historic Site atop Gallows Hill in Lunenburg, roughly 20 miles southwest of Oak Island. The nearby South Shore Genealogical Soci...
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Canada's oldest and largest maritime museum, located on the Halifax waterfront, housing an extensive collection of historic vessels, nava...
Mug & Anchor Pub
Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada
English-style pub at 643 Main Street overlooking Mahone Bay harbour, serving as an informal gathering point where the Oak Island team reg...
New Ross
New Ross, Nova Scotia, Canada
Inland Nova Scotia community where a property owner in the 1970s claimed to have uncovered the stone foundations of a pre-Columbian castl...
Northville Farms Heritage Centre
Centreville, Nova Scotia, Canada
A heritage centre in Centreville, Nova Scotia, where blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge regularly examines Oak Island artifacts, identifyi...
Roman Road of Alqueidao da Serra
Alqueidão da Serra, Porto de Mos, Portugal
A 2,000-year-old Roman stone road under active archaeological restoration in central Portugal, whose construction closely resembles the c...
Ross Farm Museum
New Ross, Nova Scotia, Canada
Living history agricultural museum in New Ross, Nova Scotia, roughly 20 miles north of Oak Island. Home to blacksmithing expert Carmen Le...
Saint Mary's University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Home to Dr. Christa Brosseau's chemistry laboratory, where artifacts found on Oak Island are examined under a scanning electron microscop...
The American University of Rome
Rome, Rome, Italy
A private American university in Rome where Professor Andrea di Robilant, an expert on pre-15th-century Atlantic voyages, presented evide...
The National Archives
Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom
The National Archives is the official archival institution of the United Kingdom Government and serves as the principal repository for En...
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Canada's oldest English-language university, located in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where the Department of Earth Sciences has conducted ...
Valletta Underground
Valetta, Valletta, Malta
Network of underground chambers, tunnels, and passages beneath Malta's capital city, dug into limestone bedrock by the Knights of Malta f...
Rennes-le-Château
Rennes-le-Château, Aude, Occitanie, France
Hilltop village in southern France where priest Bérenger Saunière discovered mysterious parchments in 1891 that led to unex...
Château de Montségur
Montségur, Ariège, Occitanie, France
Ruined Cathar fortress perched nearly 4,000 feet above the Pyrenean valley floor. The last stronghold of the Cathar faith fell after a te...
Domme Templar Prison
Domme, Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
In 1307, seventy Knights Templar were imprisoned in the towers of Domme. The carvings they left behind include a crucifix that matches th...
Rosslyn Chapel
Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Built by William Sinclair between 1446-1484. Extraordinarily dense with carved symbolism, including what many identify as pre-Columbian c...
Royston Cave
Royston, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Bell-shaped chamber carved into chalk bedrock beneath a crossroads in Royston, England, discovered in 1742 but believed to date to mediev...
Valkenburg Castle Ruins
Valkenburg aan de Geul, Limburg, Netherlands
The only hilltop castle in the Netherlands, founded c.1115 by Gosewijn I. Secret passages and a dungeon containing 14th-century Templar c...
Caestert Quarry Underground Tunnels
Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
Extensive medieval tunnel system carved through marlstone near Maastricht. Part of a 15-mile network of underground passageways running b...
Nylars Round Church
Nylars, Bornholm, Denmark
Best-preserved of Bornholm's four 12th-century round churches, built c.1165 and believed by researchers to have been constructed by the K...
Madsebakke Rock Carvings
Allinge, Bornholm, Denmark
Northern Europe's most important Bronze Age rock carving site, with petroglyphs dating back 3,000 years that researchers believe represen...
Ladby Viking Museum
Kerteminde, Funen, Denmark
The only Viking ship burial found in Denmark, dating to c.925 AD. A 21.5-metre warship served as the final resting place of a Viking chie...
Roskilde Viking Ship Museum
Roskilde, Zealand, Denmark
Houses five original Viking ships deliberately sunk in Roskilde Fjord c.1070 to block enemy naval attack. The museum's research centre ha...
Morimondo Abbey
Morimondo, Lombardy, Italy
Cistercian abbey founded in 1134 as a daughter house of Morimond Abbey in Burgundy. Its scriptorium produced over 100 manuscripts in the ...
Camerano Caves
Camerano, Marche, Italy
Underground city beneath Camerano with tunnels dating from the Piceni era through the Roman Empire and into the medieval period, when the...
Osimo Caves
Osimo, Marche, Italy
Network of 88 caves and tunnels beneath the medieval city, connected by wells and passages stretching roughly 30 kilometres. Originally c...
Convento de Cristo
Tomar, Santarém, Centro, Portugal
Templar headquarters in Portugal, founded in 1160. The iconic round church (Charola) and fortified convent complex contain carved stone h...
Tomar Town Square
Tomar, Santarém, Centro, Portugal
Historic town centre of Tomar, laid out by the Templars in the 12th century on a site of seven hills. The city served as Templar headquar...
Museu Militar (Military Museum)
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Lisbon's military museum, where Portuguese military experts confirmed that stone shots found on Oak Island match 15th or 16th-century Por...
Quinta da Regaleira
Sintra, Lisbon District, Portugal
Enigmatic estate in Sintra featuring an inverted tower (Initiation Well) descending nine levels via a spiral staircase, whose dimensions ...
Palazzo Falson
Mdina, Central Region, Malta
Medieval palace in the silent city of Mdina, one of the best-preserved historic houses in Malta. Houses Captain Olof Gollcher's collectio...
Fort St. Elmo
Valletta, Northern Harbour, Malta
Star fort at the tip of the Sciberras Peninsula in Valletta, constructed in the 16th century by the Knights of Malta. Site of the most fe...
Gozo Old Prison
Citadel, Gozo, Malta
Old Knights of Malta prison inside the Cittadella of Victoria on Gozo, reconstructed in 1599. Prisoner carvings on the walls include four...
Fortress of Louisbourg
Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada
Largest reconstructed 18th-century French fortification in North America, located on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The fortress contai...