Atlanta, Georgia
Michael C. Carlos Museum
Located on the campus of Emory University, this museum is filled with objects from the Americas to ancient Greece.
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Atlanta, Georgia
Located on the campus of Emory University, this museum is filled with objects from the Americas to ancient Greece.
Schenectady, New York
This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.
Cádiz, Spain
The ruins of a 2,000-year-old Roman fishing village perched on one of the best beaches in Spain.
Madrid, Spain
A small museum displays some of the artifacts discovered during a subway station renovation.
Antalya, Turkey
This arch granting triumphal entrance into Antalya was designed to honor the emperor's visit.
Belmonte, Portugal
This enigmatic Roman tower lurks just outside Belmonte.
Avezzano, Italy
This Roman underground canal was the longest tunnel ever built until the late 19th-century.
Palma, Spain
This historic electric train has operated with regularity since the early 1900s.
Orvieto, Italy
Nine caves filled with recently-discovered archaeological finds under the houses and the streets of the most ancient district of an old town.
Trieste, Italy
This Roman monument is surrounded by more recent construction, offering a stark contrast between ancient architecture and the modern urban landscape.
Cologne, Germany
The final resting place for a wealthy Roman family, this tomb might be the best preserved of its kind outside Italy.
Torri in Sabina, Italy
This beautiful Romanesque church preserves stunning medieval frescoes and the excavations of a Roman market town.
Fethiye, Turkey
One of the most exquisite Lycian hilltop citadels in Turkey.
Požega, Serbia
This open-air, narrow-gauge railway museum pays homage to the region's transportation history.
Province of Rieti, Italy
This enormous sinkhole hides a secret world created from divine wrath.
Como, Italy
This 1st-century CE Roman bath sits under a carpark.
Kleitoria, Greece
This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’ immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.
Ercolano, Italy
For decades, vendors have sold clothes once worn by American soldiers who stormed Italy in the 1940s.
Rome, Italy
A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.
Rome, Italy
This hydrochronometer was invented by a Dominican monk and is a prime feature in this garden.
Highland, Scotland
This rare surviving broch is one of Scotland's most impressive Bronze Age structures.
Sutri, Italy
This Roman theater was crafted into the local tuff rock and was rediscovered during the 19th-century.
Pioneer, Louisiana
This ancient settlement contains some of the largest earthen mounds in North America.
Vasche, Italy
This lake was sacred to the Sabine people who constructed a temple here on a floating island.