The remains of one of Wales’ great medieval buildings, with a pub in the cellar.

A modest stone circle in North Wales.

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

A stunning church overlooking the water that you will have all to yourself.

Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

This ancient hydrological marvel is now the base of a modern outdoor cinema.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

A sculpted indigenous garden featuring more than 60 works by Dylan Lewis.

The Cape of Good Hope is not quite as low as you can go on the African continent, but it's still geographically significant.

Despite many attempts to finish this overpass, it has been abandoned since the 1970s.

A sobering account of the vibrant multicultural neighborhood that was destroyed under apartheid.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

The soaring gondola lines form the longest aerial cable car system in the world.

Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god.

Thousands of fossilized footprints speckle this Bolivian national park.

This giant Christ took first place in South America's religious arms race.

It took 160 years to complete the most ornate church in Ecuador.

Legend says if this neo-Gothic basilica is ever officially completed, the world will come to an end.

Beautiful public park off the beaten path and away from tourists.

An exhibition devoted to the life (and posthumous taxidermy form) of the last known representative of the Pinta Island Tortoises.

Since the 1700s, this old barrel has acted as a post box that relies on the kindness of travelers.

In Faroese legend, this sinister horse-shaped beast lures unsuspecting passersby only to drown them in the lake.