A solitary lighthouse in Spain was an inspiration to the great Jules Verne.

An intricately decorated tiny place of worship.

A statue erected in honor of the toadish nickname given to Jersey residents by the French.

The ancient heart of Tunis is an enormous maze of narrow streets and alleyways.

The largest and best-preserved Roman amphitheater in Africa was designed to seat 35,000 people.

A hidden tunnel of bones in one of Malta's oldest churches.

The ruins of a megalithic monument sit right in the garden of a luxurious Maltese resort.

The fishing boats that moor in this small lagoon enter and leave through a tunnel to the sea.

Two geological phenomena in one precarious locale: a towering stone window, and a deep blue void.

In the sleepy town of Gozo exists a reproduction of the entire town of Bethlehem.

These temples are among the oldest free-standing stone buildings in the world.

This prison on the Maltese island of Gozo is almost 500 years old, and they have the graffiti to prove it.

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

The ruins of this medieval castle now stand as a monument against all wars.

This crystal clear water basin feeds the Lao river and powers a hydroelectric power plant.

Constructed during the 1960s, this bridge is still the highest in Italy.

A mountain cave is the site of archaeological findings and Paleolithic rock art.

The abandoned ruins of a failed resort hide on this verdant, picture-perfect island.

One of 200 religious buildings recognized as a “culture monument.” 

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

A museum dedicated to secret surveillance.

Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.

The largest Roman amphitheater in the Balkans once held over 20,000 people, but managed to lay hidden for hundreds of years.