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This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

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

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Venice's island of the dead.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

An Ottoman-era mosque looking over the Black Sea.

A massive marble pedestal is all that remains of a column that towered over Constantinople for 1300 years.

The only Roman honorific column in Istanbul.

Feast on the freshest of fish by the Bosphorus.

Byzantine emperors ruled, lived, and died in this 13th-century palace-turned-museum.

Wash down heaping platters of meze with raki at one of the city's best taverns.

Come for the whole sides of slow-roasted lamb, stay for the regional Kurdish specialties.

This family-owned canteen has been selling goat milk ice cream since 1933.

Eat your way through history.