All Places in Iraq

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.

9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.

An ancient fortified mound raised over the millennia from settlements built one on top of the other.

The sacred shrine of the Yazidis.

This beautiful arched gate is all that remains of the fortress the ancient mountaintop town of Amadiya once was.

A 605-page Quran penned in the blood of a dictator is locked away in a mosque.

A shrine on the shores of the Tigris.

Ancient rock-cut tomb? Definitely. That of a great Median king? Unlikely.

Giant reed houses made in the marshes of Southern Iraq.

A giant bisected onion dome remembers the Iraqis who died in the Iran-Iraq War.

An ancient sanctuary that has long been a holy site for the Chaldean Christian Church.

The surviving pieces of an ancient aqueduct that may have fed into the lost Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

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

A bloody history is captured in this former prison turned museum.

This former monument to an invented Iraqi victory was turned into a military camp during the subsequent invasion.

This ancient stone bridge is a hub for daredevils.