A children's mosaic in Limassol using deep-sea creature patterns to honor young lives lost across several genocides, including Cyprus’s own 1974 wounds.

A 3rd-century Roman villa in Kourion with one of the only mosaics in Cyprus to depict gladiators fighting by name.

This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

This abandoned ship has remained in place since it ran aground in 1998.

Legend holds that the Ancient Greek goddess of love once bathed in the waters of this grotto.

A secluded oasis of contemporary art and natural beauty.

A 4th-century Roman church complete with a hidden underground cave.

The ruins of a fifth-century church dedicated to Our Lady of the Harbor.

Legend holds that St. Paul was flogged for preaching Christianity at this pillar.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

One of Minoan Crete's most famous images, a crowned, lily-adorned figure striding through a garden, was largely invented in the 1900s from a handful of surviving fragments, and archaeologists still argue about what it actually shows.

A rainbow tunnel painted across three buildings and six storeys pulls a child (and every passerby) straight down the rabbit hole, ranked among the world's best murals the year it went up.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.