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Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Two elaborately decorated "catacomb saints" are displayed on either side of the altar in a small church in Germany.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

This beautiful system of tunnels built into natural rock serves as a centuries old plumbing system.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

No one is sure if the world's fourth-largest diamond had been found in a rubbish heap or was pawned by Napoleon's mom.

Putrefaction plateaus in Iran, where the dead were sent for decontamination before going to their final resting place.

This remote mountain shrine is one of the most sacred Zoroastrian temples remaining in the world.

The ancient necropolis houses the immense rock-cut tombs of four Persian kings.

This lake in northwest Iran has started turning from green to red more frequently than scientists are comfortable with.

Mirrors and glass shards cover every inch of this arrestingly beautiful mosque.

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

The palace of the King of Kings, burned by Alexander the Great.

An architectural relic that survived the hands of time.

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.

Five ancient libraries, little changed for centuries, preserve a medieval archive of Quranic lore and civic documents

Both an engineering feat and a monument to bad colonial politics.

Climb atop one of the world's longest and heaviest trains for an unbelievable journey across the Sahara Desert.