Sparta, Greece
Mystras
The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.
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Sparta, Greece
The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.
Laconia, Greece
This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.
Kato Kastania, Greece
This remarkable cave was discovered after a shepherd watched bees enter and exit through a small fissure.
Laconia, Greece
This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.
Laconia, Greece
The historic tower houses of this nearly abandoned Greek town have been compared to the spikes on an iguana's back.
Isthmia, Greece
A closer look at this somewhat faded hotel by the Corinth Canal reveals the architectural undertones of a genius.
Larisa, Greece
Dedicated to the god Dionysus, this theatre was used for both musical and theatrical performances.
Livadia, Greece
This sanctuary became synonymous with fear and terror in the ancient world.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
Kalabaka, Greece
Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.
Boscastle, England
The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.
Penzance, England
Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.
Exmouth, England
Two women with a flair for both adventure and artful clutter created this singular round home.
Lyme Regis, England
A beautiful bronze statue of the greatest fossil hunter of the 19th century.
Cerne Abbas, England
Giant naked man on a hillside.
Winchester, England
This sculpture is an homage to one of the most important Jewish women in medieval England.
Mottisfont, England
Lurking among the classical architecture, rose gardens, and art of this historic country house—a crocodile in a bathtub.
Chichester, England
This open-air heritage museum illuminates centuries of historic English life from a West Sussex village.
East Sussex, England
These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Osaka, Japan
This temple is home to a group of Buddha statues made from thousands of bones and ashes of the deceased.
Kyoto, Japan
The 10,000 Torii shrine.
Osaka, Japan
A moss-covered statue of a Japanese Buddhist deity stands at a quiet temple in downtown Osaka.
Kyoto, Japan
Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.