The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

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

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

Rome is now home to a stunning food museum and library.

A stunning medieval castle houses this eclectic, interactive tribute to all things wine.

Get buzzed beholding one of the world's largest coffee-machine collections, then step into the café for a specially brewed cup.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

A mosaic monument that commemorates the historical struggles of the people of North Macedonia.

Artists made this mosque into a marvel of Ottoman baroque architecture.

Thousands of objects tell the story of a city famous for its tobacco.

Stone pillars and a petrified wedding party in the hills of North Macedonia.

This 3,800-year-old site contains markers used to study the movement of the sun and moon and create a lunar calendar.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

This Art Deco airport was once deemed “the air hub of the Americas.”

This architecturally eclectic early-20th century mosque was built as a place of worship for the Islamic followers of a Jewish messiah.

More than 10,000 small mirrors cover the curved surface of the world's second-largest solar oven, located in a remote village in Uzbekistan.

This unique wooden mosque resembling a Chinese pagoda was said to be built without the use of nails.

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

Learn about the sweet, storied legacy of beekeeping in ancient Greece.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

This Michelin-starred restaurant sheds light on a rare period of cultural and culinary tolerance in Cordoba’s past.

A hidden stream deep in the mountains creates one of the largest tufa waterfalls in Serbia.

This spaceship-like Serbian monument reaches for the stars in celebration of the fallen fighters of fascism.