Pompeii, Italy
Villa dei Misteri
This amazingly well-preserved villa just outside Pompeii boasts rare examples of ancient Roman paintings.
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Pompeii, Italy
This amazingly well-preserved villa just outside Pompeii boasts rare examples of ancient Roman paintings.
London, England
This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.
Istanbul, Turkey
Climb a steep hill in 90 seconds on the second-oldest urban subway in the world.
Hunedoara, Romania
This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.
Ollantaytambo, Peru
Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.
Edinburgh, Scotland
It's a mystery how these curious columns wound up in an Edinburgh suburb.
Slack Head, England
These legendary stone steps were once used to haul coffins up the rockface.
Laconia, Greece
This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.
Seaham, England
Locals affectionately dubbed this World War I memorial "Tommy."
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Flowers have mysteriously appeared on her effigy every day for the last 150 years.
Ravenna, Italy
A medieval, mosaic-lined baptistry built by a heretical Christian sect.
Williamsburg, Virginia
This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.
Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
This unique medieval artwork featuring the story of the Antichrist remained lost for decades.
Fermo, Italy
A 2,000-year-old engineering wonder hides beneath an Italian town.
Southampton, England
Now a memorial to merchant sailors and Titanic victims, this medieval church was destroyed by bombing raids in 1940.
Merv, Turkmenistan
This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.
Barentsburg, Norway
This Arctic mining town is home to a cat that's spent years masquerading as a fox.
Lecarrow, Ireland
Wander among the abandoned ruins of this once-powerful medieval town.
Kinver, England
The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.
Buffalo, New York
One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.
Seville, Spain
Its appearance in "Game of Thrones" may spur on the long-awaited restoration of this medieval shipyard.
Mazirbe, Latvia
These abandoned vessels are destined to be reclaimed by the forest.
London, England
A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.
York, England
A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.