Although high-school students are rather restricted in their movements, there are still weekends, evenings, and the whole summer in which to travel to alien locales, meet exotic monsters, and go insane. As always, reading the original source material will give the GM the best feel for such locations, but here are brief descriptions of some non-Arkham settings for LC adventures.
It's easy to assume that with aerial photography, satellite surveillance, and six billion humans tramping around on the ground, no significant portion of the globe remains unexplored. Feel free to believe this is true of the real world, if you like, but one of the fundamental premises of Lovecraft Country is that there are things the general run of humanity is simply not mentally equipped to think about, and therefore doesn't.
Viewed in that light, the Earth turns out to have plenty of places to hide things people aren't looking for too hard, even when you discount the tendency of monsters to lurk in the (still not particularly well-explored) depths of the sea or deep underground. Many countries, even developed ones, have regions that are unusable for agriculture and therefore pretty much uninhabitated: consider, for example, the state of Nevada, or the middle 98% of Australia.
In Europe (and its wannabe, the East Coast of North America), there's not so much room to hide things, but a cave mouth or a stone circle can easily be tucked away in a corner somewhere, even if no one is deliberately hiding it. The same can be said for most other heavily populated areas.
The role of deliberate concealment cannot be neglected, either. Not
only outright crazed cultists, but also lunatics better at passing (look
at your local ballot, I'm sure you see some) can have a vested interest
in keeping blasphemous shrines and blood-stained altars secret, not to
mention the possibilities inherent in the Projecter, Mist, Mi-Go, Model
M37.84. This sort of thing makes heavily populated areas downright
appealing as sources of sacrificial victims
experimental subjects no one will miss them, anyway,
especially not when Great Cthulhu rises!
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