If you want to include a little magic with your modern-day adventures, I -highly- recommend this book. There is some great background material here on Voodoo, as well as some fantastic material on the "Shadow War" between things of the fantastic and things of the "real" world. You'll be wondering whether this could really be true by the time you finish this book. I'd like to see a well-run GURPS: Voodoo campaign just to see how close it would be to "X-Files".
Visit the ruins of the lost city of Machu Picchu and other remains of the Inca culture to explore the daily life, religion, farming and food of the Inca.
Are Homer's incredible stories in The Iliad and The Odyssey true? Did the lost continent of Atlantis exist? This program explores the "prehistory" of Europe's first civilizations that developed around the Aegean Sea, on the islands and mainland that now make up Greece. The artifacts of the ancient culture of the Mycenaeans reveal a civilization of warriors and craftsmen. By contrast, the ancient Minoans, named for King Minos, were artists, engineers, merchants and traders.
Colors, feelings, images, and words jostle and bounce off one another in this lively picture book, creating as much fun as any box of crayons has ever had.