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The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.

This stone tower was built to protect Crete from incoming pirates.

A small island with shimmering pink sands, home to loggerhead turtles and rare plants.

According to myth, Zeus himself was hidden in this cave to escape being eaten by his dad.

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

Every spring, locals see the shadowy figures of a ghost army of slain Greek soldiers descend upon this ruined fort.

St. John the Baptist's forearm is housed in this remote 11th-century monastery.

After witnessing the rise and fall of three empires, this ancient city was finally destroyed by a series of earthquakes.

Legend holds that St. Paul was flogged for preaching Christianity at this pillar.

This abandoned ship has remained in place since it ran aground in 1998.

While most shipwrecks are submerged, this ship in Cyprus ran ashore.

This sea stack in Cyprus is traditionally seen as the birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite.

The ruins of a fairytale castle with a tumultuous history stand high atop the mountains.

This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

A remote field of nearly pristine sand dunes in the heart of the Mojave Desert.

Traces of General Patton’s Mojave Desert training camps for the North Africa campaign.

200-foot-high minaret and only remnant of Afghanistan's lost city of the Turquoise Mountain.

Rock-cut chamber at top of an outcroup, reached by a mountain stairway of forty steps.

Two Chinese dragons guard the caves of this medieval temple in Iran.