A miniature desert appears out of nowhere on the lush isle of Lemnos, like something out of a Greek myth.

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

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

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

The vaulted ceiling is home to a scurry of “squirrelgoyles.”

This breathtaking national park is one of the best places to see the weird and wonderful giant anteater in the wild.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

The adorable animals return to this nature reserve every fall to give birth to their pups.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

The last street in Pittsburgh that's paved with wood.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

This open air archeological site houses almost as much wildlife as it does classical religious artifacts.

Temple complex that once housed the famous statue of Nike.

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.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.