Athens, Greece
Church of Agia Kyriaki
A tiny Greek Orthodox church from the Ottoman era hides on a busy city street.
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Athens, Greece
A tiny Greek Orthodox church from the Ottoman era hides on a busy city street.
Athens, Greece
These caves secretly held national treasures during World War II.
Athens, Greece
Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.
Athens, Greece
The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.
Athens, Greece
Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.
Athens, Greece
An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.
Soweto, South Africa
Nelson Mandela lived here with his family from 1946 until his arrest in 1962.
Soweto, South Africa
Two giant painted cooling towers make for one of the world’s most epic bungee jumps.
Ehlanzeni, South Africa
Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.
Rome, Italy
The ruins of the largest gladiatorial school in Rome are largely hidden under modern streets.
Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy
This Roman amphitheatre was also the location of the first gladiator school.
Alberobello, Italy
Southern Italy's spinning top village.
Benevento, Italy
Unscathed for almost 2,000 years, the best preserved Roman triumphal arch is in a small southern Italian city.
Matera, Italy
Skulls and skeletons are omnipresent in this church dedicated to souls trapped in purgatory.
Matera, Italy
People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.
Rome, Italy
Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.
Rome, Italy
A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.
La Junta, Colorado
Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.
Lisbon, Portugal
A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.
Lisbon, Portugal
Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.
Lisbon, Portugal
The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.
Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.