This nightlife venue and cultural center keeps a unique Ethiopian musical tradition alive in the nation’s capital, but breakneck urban development threatens to shut it down.

A powerful tribute to the victims who suffered under Ethiopia's most devastating regime.

An ocean in the making, in the Ethiopian desert.

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.

According to one local legend, this image was created during a battle between a wild lioness and the archangel Michael.

This roadside monument commemorates the huge weapon built by an Ethiopian emperor's hostages.

The medieval center of the Islamic world was also once the seat of Saladin's sultanate.

Slum Settlement Filled With Mountains of Garbage.

The city-sized home palace of one of ancient Egypt's most powerful rulers gives us a rare look into the lives of the epoch's rulers.

Located near Cairo's El Korba district, the abandoned mansion continues to inspire mystery and rumor throughout the city.

Part shoe store, part sociopolitical art gallery, part zoo.

This unassuming tree stump reportedly traces its roots to the famous pharaoh queen's reign.

Brightly painted boulders scattered throughout the Sinai Desert.

A massive work of modern art that appears to be a crop circle in the middle of the desert.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

This 7th-century monastery was sacked by Saladin.

Giant pigeon houses packed into city streets in Egypt.

The forgotten mummies of Dakhla oasis.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

A massive rock in the surf steeped in legends.

The haunting beauty of this little-visited wreck makes it a true hidden treasure.