A full-size replica of this well-preserved temple lets you take a walk through the Mayan age.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

It might not be the prettiest pyramid in Egypt, but it may be the muddiest.

This staircase full of Mayan hieroglyphics is perhaps the largest single text in the world.

The most gigantic, swoony, intimidating trio of fingers in all of antiquity.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

The alleged house of the Virgin Mary is tucked away in a park and nature preserve on Mt. Koressos in Turkey and is holy to both Catholics and Muslims alike.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

High atop a Mexican rainforest mountain, this ancient pyramid once drew pilgrims countries away.

The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.

Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.

An intimate look into the apartments of Jounieh via cable car.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.

This underground church is topped with a 500-foot cross that is seen by many as a beacon of fascist hubris.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.