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An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

Natives of this mud-brick desert village use an ancient irrigation system to grow sweet, seedless grapes.

The tallest stationary dunes on Earth also happen to sing.

Unusual, mushroom-like rock formations caused by weathering and water erosion, set to disappear, according to geologists.

The Uyghur settlement in the middle of a lake continues to raise questions.

Some of the world's only freshwater seals live in one very special lake in Russia.

The largest covered bazaar in the world.

One of the world's largest shopping malls covers an area of 15 million square feet—and it's still set to grow.

This steamship has been beautifully rusting off the coast of an Iranian island since the 1960s.

Leaking natural gas never stops burning on this hill, making it an infinite inferno.

Colorful mineral deposits turn these mountains into an Impressionist fantasy.

Two Chinese dragons guard the caves of this medieval temple in Iran.

Iranian tombstones shaped like male and female sexual organs.

This 17th-century structure is a beautiful testimony to traditional Persian architecture

Long before air conditioning, Persian architects found an ingenious way to cool off.

This 12,000 year old Iranian cave village has been continuously inhabited for over 3,000 years.

The tower in this 1,000-year-old mud-brick village seems to vibrate for no apparent reason.

This ancient fortress in Iran was once the oldest and largest treasury in the world.

This ancient burial site is believed to be one of the first earthquake-protected structures in the world.

Salt cured mummies continue to turn up in this Iranian mine.

Hundreds of stones dangle from barren trees in the middle of the desert.

The fire inside this temple has burned for more than 1,500 years.