This enormous sports car themed amusement park is home to the world’s fastest roller coaster.

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

One of the oldest and largest castles in the world.

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

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

Mysterious lost empire of the Silk Road.

Mummies preserved naturally for seven centuries.

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

Lebanese castle built by one man, over a lifetime.

A patchwork of ruins from various civilizations in one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities.

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

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.

The Earth's saltiest natural body of water belches toxic gas.

An ancient Ethiopian cave church is endangered by the simple building of a road.

Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.

The hottest place on the planet.

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

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

A MiG-17 fighter jet sits atop this memorial to the indiscriminate bombardment of Hargeisa.

This cave located in the badlands of Somaliland contains some of the oldest cave art in Africa.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.