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Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

This hotel is located on the edge of the world's largest salt flat and is made out of the only material around.

Largest site of dinosaur footprints ever found includes more than 5,000 tracks.

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

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

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

A US military accident created the legends behind this Mexican version of the Bermuda Triangle.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Man-made cave with enigmatic carvings, some say made by the Knights Templar themselves.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.

Isaac Newton's former home, where the famous apple tree still stands.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Temple complex that once housed the famous statue of Nike.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

A sprawling collection of books and manuscripts about ancient Greece that would have put their famed libraries to shame.

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

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.