This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

Swarms of dainty flying insects swarm into the Petaloudes Valley to get busy.

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

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

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

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

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

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

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

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

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

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

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

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

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.

Museum dedicated to the sacred leaf of the Andes.

In La Paz's huge, city-sized cemetery, the deceased are stored in rows of apartment-like buildings.

Astronomical observatory above Lake Titicaca.

A desert that evokes the surreal.

Bolivia's needle-like rock formations.

This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.