Ramla, Israel
Pool of Arches
You can row a boat through this ancient underground reservoir.
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Ramla, Israel
You can row a boat through this ancient underground reservoir.
Jerusalem, Israel
The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.
Almon, Israel
A serene desert oasis speckled with ancient artifacts.
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
A 2,000-year-old wine press hidden in an overlooked park in Tel Aviv.
Israel
Squeezing inside this deep, narrow canyon reveals a festival of desert colors.
Jerusalem, Israel
This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.
Porto, Portugal
This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.
Lisbon, Portugal
Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.
Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Porto, Portugal
One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.
Rome, Italy
This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.
Rome, Italy
In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Rome, Italy
Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.
Dubrovnik, Croatia
A unique interactive experience of everyday life in communist Yugoslavia—a very different time in Croatian history.
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Gargoyle head that brings good luck.
London, England
A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.
London, England
A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.
London, England
The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.
London, England
A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.
London, England
Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.
London, England
A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.
London, England
A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.
London, England
Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.