Easter Island is the most isolated island on earth. It belongs to Chile, but the Chilean mainland is 2200 miles away to the east. This island is stuck out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean between Santiago and Tahiti, two thousand miles to the west.

There's a lot of mystery surrounding this speck of land alone in the ocean, mostly centered around those world-famous statues of stone. Where did the ancient people who built the statues come from? Why did they build the statues? What do they mean?

We do know that the first ... (more)