Cultures and Civilizations

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.

An ancient tower built during Roman times as a lookout post still stands to this day.

Groups of prehistoric tombs that dot the mountains of northern Oman.

Landscape of bizarrely shaped desert mountains and innumerable rock carvings.

Ancient Egyptian relief, claimed to depict an electrical light.

More than 100 monumental tombs carved into rock are preserved at this ancient Nabataean site in the Arabian Desert.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

An independent naturist colony amidst 1000-year-old ruins.

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

The temple that withstood the Nazis.

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

You were once able to challenge a chicken to tic-tac-toe at this park, which is now converted into the Aikman Wildlife Adventure.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

Four cars from the old system were once on display, but were removed in 2014.

One of the most ethnically diverse spots on the planet.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

A 2200 year old vessel may have been able to keep a charge.