An archaeological site believed to be the burial place of the "mother of us all."

During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.

Possibly the oldest of Britain's ancient henges is also one of its most stark.

Thanks to both terrific preservation and historic vandalism this ancient site is known as the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney."

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

Sample cuisine inspired by the Great Plains indigenous people who have been gathering at this sacred Canadian Heritage Park for 6,000 years.

Disturbing winged beings decorate the walls of this strange abandoned hermitage.

India's first open-air public art district sits in the heart of the country's capital.

The artwork detailing the city's history features a few controversial characters.

"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."

This partially reconstructed Aztec pyramid gives a glimpse of what its larger counterparts would have looked like.

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

Deep in the Guatemalan jungle stands an ancient pyramid that once marked the reign of a king.

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

A tiny rural community in Switzerland was home to one of history's most shocking murders, and led to the banning of Absinthe for nearly a century.

This now abandoned restaurant provides some of the most amazing views of Lisboa.

After suggesting criminals be burned to death on this rock, a king's advisor suffered his own punishment.

The most important and best preserved remnant of West Africa's powerful Songhai Empire.

The ruins of a defunct limestone quarry still haunt this Scottish promontory.

The most remote tree in the world survived desertification, but not a drunk truck driver.

The world's most remote memorial to the victims of the UTA Flight 772 disaster.

Camels and crocodiles share the black waters of this stunning Saharan oasis.

One of the world's largest pyramids stands within El Mirador, the "lost city of the Maya."