Geneva, Illinois
The Viking
A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.
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Geneva, Illinois
A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.
Chicago, Illinois
First planned industrial community in the United States.
Wilmette, Illinois
The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.
Chicago, Illinois
This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.
Chicago, Illinois
A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.
Chicago, Illinois
In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.
Çanakkale, Turkey
This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.
Penteli, Greece
Hideout of thieves, monks, and goat-footed gods.
Thessaloniki, Greece
This architecturally eclectic early-20th century mosque was built as a place of worship for the Islamic followers of a Jewish messiah.
Arcadia, Greece
Seventeen oak trees sprout from the roof and walls of this tiny chapel without any visual evidence of roots.
Argolis, Greece
The secular incarnation of a religious meditation.
Greece
A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.
Mesopotamos, Greece
Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.
Lesbos Prefecture, Greece
The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.
Lemnos, Greece
An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.
Calascio, Italy
What looks like a link in Gondor's early warning system is actually a centuries-old Italian fortress.
Santorini, Greece
A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.
Moires, Greece
Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.
Laconia, Greece
A cave network located at the southernmost tip of mainland Greece was once believed to be an entrance to Hades.