The ruins of this monumental city founded by the first Roman Emperor are strangely overlooked by most travelers.

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

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

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

Local lore says two enemy dragons live within these breathtaking mountain lakes.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

According to myth, Zeus himself was hidden in this cave to escape being eaten by his dad.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

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

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

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

This bridge was designed to connect a road that never came to fruition.

An immersive Māori village where you can learn history and heritage through dance, ceremony, song, architecture, and food.

An unusual snaking bank of boulders caused by longshore drift.

It took millions of years for these rocks to resemble their mammalian counterparts.

New Zealand's only inland salt lake goes through a constant cycle of filling, evaporating, and refilling.

This beach provides a glimpse of the ancient seafloor without getting wet.

A drowned river valley that was important to the Maori and European settlers.

This quiet island in the middle of a bustling city is actually a volcano dotted with Māori ruins.

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.