Belpasso, Italy
Mount Etna
The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.
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Belpasso, Italy
The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.
Syracuse, Italy
Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.
Calascio, Italy
What looks like a link in Gondor's early warning system is actually a centuries-old Italian fortress.
Andria, Italy
Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.
Pompeii, Italy
Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.
Pompeii, Italy
The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.
Pompeii, Italy
Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.
Capri, Italy
The Emperor Tiberius' palace of debauchery.
Sorrento, Italy
An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.
Kilkenny, Ireland
This ancient Irish religious site is covered in ancient carvings, many of which have barely aged.
Carnac, France
Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.
Lambholm, Scotland
This tin chapel was built by POW's during World War II and is painted to look like something much more grand.
Liddel, Scotland
This Scottish burial tomb once held hundreds of ancient eagle bones.
Stromness, Scotland
Thanks to both terrific preservation and historic vandalism this ancient site is known as the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney."
Stromness, Scotland
Possibly the oldest of Britain's ancient henges is also one of its most stark.
Orkney, Scotland
The true age of this ancient stone circle is unknown, but its stunning vista isn't in question.
Sandwick, Scotland
Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.
Amesbury, England
Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world
Salisbury, England
The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.