The San Andreas Fault spectacularly offsets this creek.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.

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

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

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

This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

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

This ancient hydrological marvel is now the base of a modern outdoor cinema.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

There are many Byzantine-era churches still standing in Athens, but this is the only one with a 2,500-year-old column rising through its roof.

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.