Places dangerscuba Wants to Go

Thousands of narrow alleyways in an ancient medieval city make up what's believed to be the world's largest car-free urban zone.

The other side is actually green.

The largest falcon hospital in the world, caring for over 6,000 feathered patients every year.

The oldest surviving mosque in the UAE has mysterious origins and unusual architecture.

Home of the infamous Rug Man of Doha.

These beautiful historic watchtowers were used for both scanning the desert for enemy invaders and observing the celestial world.

The building is a gigantic piece of art inspired by the shape of a desert rose.

The site of a bloody showdown between invading Iraqi forces and a cell of the popular resistance in Kuwait.

This road earned its macabre nickname after hundreds of Iraqi troops died along it in 1991.

Wander among the ghostly ruins of an island where civilization flourished for thousands of years.

A 19th-century fortress and collection of artifacts offer a tour of Saudi history.

This mesmerizing, colorful structure looks like a tent made from stained glass.

An archaeological site believed to be the burial place of the "mother of us all."

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

A sinkhole and now a swimming hole, too, full of dazzling turquoise water.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

A tribute to the beloved, kind-hearted "homeless mayor" of Silver Spring.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

The rooster who crossed the road lives on forever in Takoma Park, Maryland.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.

Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.