These 40,000-year-old stenciled hands are older than the famous cave art in France and Spain.

This tiny lake temple dedicated to a water goddess seems to float on the surface.

A small museum in the Bay of Pigs gives the Cuban perspective on the famously failed U.S. invasion.

This communist country can still appreciate its fragrant past.

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.

A colorful narrow alley in Cuba is full of street art and sculptures made of found objects.

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

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

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

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

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

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

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

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

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

At the right time of day, sunlight floods through the roof of this cave and illuminates the small pavilion hidden within.