The legendary luxury train passage is commemorated with a charming museum inside its former eastern terminus.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.

Seven early Christians were sealed into a cave where legend has it they slept unharmed for centuries.

This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

This museum was invented in a novel before being made real by the author.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

Ancient serpentine sacrifice holder that has stood the test of time.

A gorgeous, Gaudí-esque stairway constructed in the city of Istanbul by a prominent Jewish family.

This historic hotel preserves many treasures from its heyday hosting passengers on the Orient Express.

Taking the subway here means doing so over a bridge located in the middle of an estuary.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.