El-Montaza, Egypt
Baron Empain Palace
Located near Cairo's El Korba district, the abandoned mansion continues to inspire mystery and rumor throughout the city.
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El-Montaza, Egypt
Located near Cairo's El Korba district, the abandoned mansion continues to inspire mystery and rumor throughout the city.
Dandarah, Egypt
Ancient Egyptian relief, claimed to depict an electrical light.
Tanis, Egypt
The once great capital of Egypt now crumbles forward as evocative ruins.
Abu AR Rish Qebli, Egypt
A network of ancient Egyptian tombs built into the cliff face along the Nile.
Alexandria, Egypt
Part shoe store, part sociopolitical art gallery, part zoo.
Qesm Saint Katrin, Egypt
The deadliest diving spot in the world is also a stunning geological marvel.
Aswan, Egypt
The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.
Nagoa Ash Shatb, Egypt
One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.
Ibsheway, Egypt
Egyptian treasure trove of fossils documenting the whale's transition from land mammal to sea creature.
Qesm Hurghada, Egypt
A massive work of modern art that appears to be a crop circle in the middle of the desert.
Badrshein, Egypt
This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.
Cairo, Egypt
A preserved oasis with traditional Andalusian-style architecture and beautiful views of the Nile.
Dandarah, Egypt
One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.
Luxor, Egypt
Known as the Sistine Chapel of Egypt, this tomb houses some of the most well-preserved paintings in Egypt.
Egypt
An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.
Luxor, Egypt
These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.
Zawya Sultan Basha, Egypt
An endless sea of white conical domes.
Nubia, Egypt
Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.
Cairo, Egypt
An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.
Alexandria, Egypt
An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.
Fez, Morocco
The thirteen wooden beams protruding from this historical building were once part of a hydraulic clock.
Fez, Morocco
This historic bathhouse that likely dates back to the 1300s.
Aouli, Morocco
Large-scale operations in these mines ceased in the 1960s, leaving behind crumbling processing facilities and deserted living quarters.
Aït Bouguemez, Morocco
This former community granary is now a lonely mountaintop shrine.