A small island with shimmering pink sands, home to loggerhead turtles and rare plants.

This stone tower was built to protect Crete from incoming pirates.

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

The first home and studio that belonged to the famous architect.

After an Illinois church was struck by lightning and burned down, Frank Lloyd Wright designed this replacement.

The Guinness Record holder as the "tallest cinema in the world" is a building with screens in almost every one of its 12 floors

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

An eccentric park and pool.

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

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

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

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

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

Abandoned cemetery of the former Psychiatric Hospital of Volterra.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

A copy of the famous bus used during the filming of 'Into the Wild' is on display at an Alaska brewery.