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Stone blocks laid with no mortar make up a good portion of the ruins at Lubaantun.

Lubaantun Archeological Reserve

A devastated ruin in the south of Belize where British explorers claimed to unearth the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull.

Hegra, Saudi Arabia

Qasr al-Farid

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

Classical Depravity: A Guide to the Perverted Past

Edmund Richardson March 24, 2014

Terrace of the Lions

Mikonos, Greece

Terrace of the Lions

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

Reconstruction of Villa Jovis by C. Weichardt (1900)

Villa Jovis

The Emperor Tiberius' palace of debauchery.

An ancient Quran in Chinguetti.

Chinguetti, Mauritania

The Libraries of Chinguetti

Five ancient libraries, little changed for centuries, preserve a medieval archive of Quranic lore and civic documents

The Gennadius Library

The Gennadius Library

A sprawling collection of books and manuscripts about ancient Greece that would have put their famed libraries to shame.

Antarctica Snow

The Dead Forests of Antarctica

Darmon Richter January 27, 2014

Suncheon, South Korea

Naganeupseong Folk Village

A Korean village where times stands still.

Mound of Hostages

Mound of the Hostages

An ancient neolithic tomb that only sees the sun twice a year.

Moray

Moray

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

Mycenae

Argolis, Greece

Mycenae

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

Gladiator School: When in Rome, Fight Like a Roman

Fabiana Formica December 13, 2013

Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, France

Fontaine de Vaucluse

Even France's favorite aquatic son Jacques Cousteau, couldn't get to the bottom of it.

Painting of Medea by Sandys (1866-8)

Four Jobs for an Ancient Witch

Edmund Richardson October 18, 2013

Supposedly a carving of a human face.

Callahuanca, Peru

Marcahuasi Ruins

A mysterious pre-Incan ruin believed to have miraculous healing powers.

The Temple of Apollo, Delphi.

Nine Places To See the Ruins of Ancient Religious Cults

Ancient religion was strange and fierce.

Edmund Richardson September 6, 2013

Fars Province, Iran

The Ruins of Persepolis

The palace of the King of Kings, burned by Alexander the Great.