Pompeii, Italy
Stone Phalluses of Pompeii
The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.
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Pompeii, Italy
The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.
Naples, Italy
A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.
Aït Ben Haddou, Morocco
A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families
Ouarzazate, Morocco
World's largest film studio, where visitors tour the decaying sets that litter the harsh desert environment.
Province de Ouarzazate, Morocco
An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."
Luxor, Egypt
These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.
Springdale, Utah
The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.
Marrakesh, Morocco
It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.
Big Sur, California
This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.
Bayfield, Prince Edward Island
This engineering marvel is the longest bridge in Canada and one of the longest spans in the world.
Fez, Morocco
This restored 17th century synagogue is one of the few remaining structures in Morocco’s ruined Jewish quarters.
Demre, Turkey
A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.
Kaleüçağız Köyü, Turkey
Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.
Turkey
Flames have been burning within this mountain for more than 2,500 years.
Serik, Turkey
The best-preserved ancient theater in the world.
Birdsboro, Pennsylvania
Where the famed frontiersman was born, raised, and survived Quaker intrigue
Hurricane, Utah
A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.
Edgard, Louisiana
The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.
Quito, Ecuador
It took 160 years to complete the most ornate church in Ecuador.
Mount Joy, Pennsylvania
In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.
Cairo, Egypt
An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.
Moncton, New Brunswick
A mysterious spot where the laws of gravity seem not to apply.