This colorful statue welcomes visitors to a Barcelona park.

The largest and best-preserved Roman amphitheater in Africa was designed to seat 35,000 people.

The ancient heart of Tunis is an enormous maze of narrow streets and alleyways.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

An abandoned film set location for a remote spaceport in a galaxy far, far away hides in the Tunisian desert.

The largest salt lake in the Sahara is mysteriously alluring.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

The best-preserved ancient theater in the world.

This Scottish graveyard is the final resting place of the man who inspired the character Ebenezer Scrooge.

Nailing a coin to this holy stump is just another way to ask the gods for relief from dental pain.

The oldest Hindu temple complex in Nepal serves as the seat of Nepal’s national deity, Lord Pashupatinath.

The former stronghold of the Malla Dynasty has remained virtually unchanged since the 17th century.

The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in the ruins of this ancient monastic community.

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

The unexpectedly beloved remnants of a controversial thermal power plant.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.

Edinburgh's oldest statue hides within a parking lot behind the city's iconic cathedral.

Many Hindus make the long pilgrimage to this holy city to have their remains burned on the banks of the Ganges River.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

This remarkable prehistoric town is full of watchtowers and houses that have withstood thousands of years.

An eerie collection of the surviving structures from a past celebration of the future.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.