First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

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

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

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

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

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

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

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

A staircase made of gravestones leads up to this church built into a giant rock.

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

Balanced on four stone pillars, this historic tower was the site of a tragic political assassination.

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.

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

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.

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

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

An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.