This unique museum is home to over 5,000 puppets of all types.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.

One man's labor of love, Amman's oldest home has become a time capsule with its doors permanently open to artists and guests.

This exceptionally well-preserved ancient marvel also houses a small museum dedicated to Jordanian folk tradition.

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

According to legend, this cavern holds the passage that Persephone used to travel to and from the underworld.

This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’s immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.

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

The remains of a 1st-century aristocratic Roman town house featuring beautiful well-preserved mosaics.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

This "volcanic all-day restaurant" is right on the beach.

An intricate network of underground tombs carved into volcanic rock.

One of the best-preserved medieval streets in Europe.

After a catastrophic forest fire, a Greek artist transformed scorched tree trunks outside an old sanatorium into this haunting sculpture garden.

This seaside sanctuary was once one of the most important religious sites for women in ancient Greece.

This medieval "painted village" is famous for its geometric facades.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.