Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

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

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

One of the great treasures of Neolithic art lies within this carefully constructed pile of rocks.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

This noble mash-up in eastern Luxembourg is part Medieval, part Renaissance, all castle.

These medieval ruins have survived since the 12th century, even providing shelter from the Nazis.

Two towns are linked by an engineering marvel masquerading as a boring suspension bridge.

This Luxembourg cave is covered in cryptic looking marks left by mining activity.

This tri-part waterfall is a little bit of fairytale beauty in the heart of Luxembourg's Little Switzerland.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

This gruesome biblical parade celebrates the one day a year that a bit of Jesus' blood turns to liquid.

This "social palace" housing complex created a relatively stable and self-contained worker's society... for a time.

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.