This futuristic building is yet another architectural wonder in Dubai.

On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.

This museum shaped like a manuscript tells how the seven kingdoms combined to form a single desert nation.

Dioramas retell the obscure local legends and ghost stories of Sharjah, from a living palm tree to a headless camel.

Outside a historic fort stands a replica of the “tree of repentance” where criminals were publicly punished.

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

This abandoned fishing village may or may not be haunted.

In an Emirati park near the Omani border, a reconstructed Bronze Age tomb with impressive reliefs.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

The United Arab Emirates's biggest and oldest fort pays homage to a lost era.

A 3,000 acre historic oasis and farm in the middle of the UAE's "Green City".

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

The oldest building in Hargeisa survived the 1988 bombings that destroyed some 90 percent of the city.

An extensive audio-only collection of cultural heritage saved from a genocide.

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

Rimmed by white crusts of salt on every edge, Lac Assal is one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world.

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

Kuwait City's uniquely designed water towers look straight out of a retro sci-fi cityscape.

More than 100 monumental tombs carved into rock are preserved at this ancient Nabataean site in the Arabian Desert.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

Carved into a towering rock mountain in Al Ula, this once served as a religious and political center in Hegra.

Within the Saudi Arabian desert lies a 2,000-year-old ghost town made of stone and mud.

Lions carved into the rockface adorn these two tombs built into the mountains of Dadan.

Al Rahmah Mosque appears to "float" atop the Red Sea.