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One of the best-preserved Roman amphitheaters is still used today, but for less brutal events.

This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.

The remains of a sunken military ship wreck visible through clear water.

Legend has it fairies gathered at the site of this medieval castle.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Locals insist that this is the actual jetty where St. Paul tied up his vessel on his overnight visit to the island.

A lesser-known World Heritage Site with an amazing Byzantine style mosaic of Jesus on the semi-dome of the apse

The world's largest Punic necropolis

Legend has it that Bishop Oliver King dreamed of angels ascending to heaven and ordered the church's reconstruction in the late 1400s

This amazing cathedral was built on the site of the first Marian shrine in Spain and is important to Spanish speakers the world over

The world's largest monastic library is also a baroque artistic masterpiece

A massive engineering and hydraulic marvel dating back to the 3rd century BC

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

A derelict hunting lodge that was once the site of aristocratic debauchery.

Is this amazing tableau depicting Gilgamesh and Enki 4,000 years old?

This archaeological site boasts temple ruins that date back 5,000 years to the Dilmun culture, and may have been described in the tale of Gilgamesh's search for immortality.

Launched by Napoleon's soldiers more than 200 years ago, a cannonball remains embedded in the tower wall.

The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.

This tombstone marks the spot where the legendary British spy met his end.

This Greek Orthodox church houses the mummified body of St. Spyridon.

See every month of the year personified at this opulent Turinese fountain.

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?