This slumbering beast honors the Bavarian soldiers who died in Greece during a 19th-century typhoid outbreak.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

One of Minoan Crete's most famous images, a crowned, lily-adorned figure striding through a garden, was largely invented in the 1900s from a handful of surviving fragments, and archaeologists still argue about what it actually shows.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

A Byzantine-era church hidden in a wooded area below the Acropolis.

These caves secretly held national treasures during World War II.

Rest stops along this pathway offer some of the best views of the Acropolis of Athens.

A Byzantine church containing the holy remnants of three saints sits atop the site of an ancient temple.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

According to legend, this cavern holds the passage that Persephone used to travel to and from the underworld.

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

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

World's largest Christmas store.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

A former sanitarium where soldiers were sent to recover in the healing waters of hot springs.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.