This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

Public water fountains built during the Ottoman Era still stand throughout this seaside town.

The historic building has preserved human organs, unusual hexagrams, and scars from a political assassination.

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

A man's head is enshrined beneath a statue near the first building constructed for the modern Olympic Games.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

These ancient ruins hide in plain sight next to a dessert shop.

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

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A century-old landmark that once employed Sinclair Lewis and is still known for its ghost stories.

This landmark honoring a local beer brand is an iconic part of the Minneapolis skyline.

This sprawling building built in 1890 was one of Minnesota’s earliest and largest mental health facilities.

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

The childhood home of America’s first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.