This former royal palace with gorgeous gardens became the first museum in Morocco.

The oldest monument in Marrakesh and the city's only surviving example of Almoravid architecture.

The courtyard of this small Marinid madrasa is a dazzling example of intricate Islamic architecture.

This vast masterpiece of Moroccan architecture spreads across 20 acres.

Deliberately hidden for centuries, the magnificent Saadian Tombs were eventually uncovered in 1917.

The largest madrasa in Morocco once housed more than 900 students within its exquisite walls.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

Vast stretch of tide-pools with a unique Moroccan charm.

Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.

God's Saharan sandbox of wrath.

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.

A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families

One of the most spectacular canyons in the world.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.