These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

An unnatural lake in a naturally beautiful setting.

This small church was constructed over the ruins of three temples dating to the Roman Republic.

A medieval church built into an ancient cave.

Standing atop 2nd-century Roman ruins, this church is one of the oldest and most iconic in Old Cairo.

Part shoe store, part sociopolitical art gallery, part zoo.

People in Poland have rallied to save this unnatural desert from being reclaimed by the forest.

A deserted Bedouin village lines the shores of this stunning desert oasis.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

Early Medieval stones sit on display at the beautiful Govan Old Church in Glasgow.

Parts of this sprawling temple complex are deteriorating, but its founder’s body remains intact.

A pair of mysterious, unusually polished cave temples with an ancient gold legend.

This ancient cave temple complex is the largest and best-preserved temple complex in Sri Lanka.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The pristine waters crossing this forest form a hidden waterfall among the dense vegetation.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

Remote, beautiful, and stigmatized, Las Hurdes is Spain's version of Appalachia.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

An archaeological museum at the Aztec pyramid displays signs of the New Fire ritual performed every 52 years.

This church combines Christian, Byzantine, and ancient Greek architectural elements.

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.