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

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

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

Giant reed houses made in the marshes of Southern Iraq.

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

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

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

The sacred shrine of the Yazidis.

9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.

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

3D war panorama in Damascus built with help from North Korea.

Only a handful of these gorgeous historic waterwheels remain but even those are in danger from local unrest.

This ancient mountain monastery welcomes all manner of faith in an effort to keep Christians in Syria.

Amid the rubble of Aleppo's Old Quarter, part of a historic market has been restored and re-opened.

One of the oldest and largest castles in the world.

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

Mysterious lost empire of the Silk Road.

An intimate look into the apartments of Jounieh via cable car.

Modern museum, designed for Jihadi tourists.

Lebanese castle built by one man, over a lifetime.

This modernist cinema has survived war and reconstruction to become a symbol of Lebanon’s revolutionary spirit.

A monumental underground karstic wonderland is also the water source for over a million citizens of Beirut.

The largest hewn stone in history.

After this one-of-a-kind palace was built the architect's hands are said to have been cut off to keep it that way.