Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

Slum Settlement Filled With Mountains of Garbage.

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

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

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

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

Held in a fort that once stood for colonization of the area, this museum now tells the history of its indigenous people.

A public display of prehistoric space rocks is named for the Namibian village where they were found.

Ancient artists in the middle of nowhere.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.