Researchers have found "a series of three concentric belts of structures built on an artificial island, mirroring Plato’s descriptions" under a marsh in Spain. The locations is not that far from where Plato claimed Atlantis was located.
Full article: Researchers claim they found Atlantis in a Spanish swamp.
While many locations have been claimed for Atlantis, probably the current favorite being Santorini (Thera), which blew its top in a cataclysm thought to have destroyed the Minoan civilization, this could still be the one! And it has the advantage of matching Plato's description of the location pretty closely. Don't forget that nobody believed Troy was a real place until Schliemann unearthed it!
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