This 12-inch-tall wooden sculpture of a winged Virgin Mary has inspired much devotion and countless replicas.

The world's tallest aluminum statue is also the world's tallest image of a winged Virgin Mary.

Legend says if this neo-Gothic basilica is ever officially completed, the world will come to an end.

Quito's historic, main square dates back to the 16th century.

The gondolas let you glimpse a bird's-eye view of one of the world's highest capital cities.

In this pristine Ecuadorian hippie town, residents remain active well into their eighties and nineties.

An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.

Home of the "true" equator.

A turquoise lake within a volcanic crater.

The bullet-banged DIY suit of armour belonging to Australia’s most famous outlaw.

You'll find the little birds tucked within the rocks of this Australian beach.

An abandoned jewel of a ballroom on the top floor of Australia’s busiest rail station echoes with the sounds of a bygone era.

See how paper is made the old-fashioned way.

This fortress dates back to the 6th century and is also the site of a controversial abandoned restoration project.

This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.

This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

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

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

The place of worship for Zoroastrians, Mumbai's Parsi fire temples use fire and ash for purification.

Kolkata’s only Portuguese church has a curious link with chickens.