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

This 19th-century fountain's namesake animal isn't what you think it is.

Giant topiary dog once played a role in a terrorist bomb plot.

This unusual statue overlooking the Royal Mile has an interesting backstory.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

The same water that fills a luxury resort’s pools feeds these free hot springs in the rainforest.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

You might recognize this historic Oregon mansion from its appearance in 'The Goonies.'

This often-overlooked ocean walkway was once considered an impossible fantasy.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

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