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

This subterranean disco dance club in a Cuban cave comes with bright lights and a dark legend.

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

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Vast stretch of tide-pools with a unique Moroccan charm.

One of the most spectacular canyons in the world.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.

Beautiful public park off the beaten path and away from tourists.

A 10 million-ton rock once worshiped by the Tahamies Indians, accessed by an astounding staircase.

In the middle of one of South America's most historic walled cities lies a bar with an enormous collection of Soviet memorabilia.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

A magical world of elves and fairies tucked amongst the trees in Colombia.

Colombia's biggest botanical garden contains plants from all across the country.

Known as the site of 'El Dorado,' this mysterious lake is rumored to hold gold beneath its waters.

This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.