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This ancient stone necropolis is in danger of disappearing.

Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.

The most gigantic, swoony, intimidating trio of fingers in all of antiquity.

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

A more chill but no less fascinating version of the famous ancient archeological site.

Biblical beasts and endangered animal preservation come together in this Israeli zoo.

The most peaceful "country" in the Middle East.

This subterranean funicular is one of the world's smallest subways.

A 2,000-year-old wine press hidden in an overlooked park in Tel Aviv.

A massive, heart-shaped, wind-carved crater in the middle of the Israeli desert.

These numerous Israeli caves were dug out over hundreds years for reasons ranging from hideouts to burial sites.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

The surviving pieces of an ancient aqueduct that may have fed into the lost Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

This former monument to an invented Iraqi victory was turned into a military camp during the subsequent invasion.

Ancient rock-cut tomb? Definitely. That of a great Median king? Unlikely.

A boiling wellspring flowing with natural gas burns in a continual blaze.

A giant bisected onion dome remembers the Iraqis who died in the Iran-Iraq War.

A 2200 year old vessel may have been able to keep a charge.

The sacred shrine of the Yazidis.

This beautiful arched gate is all that remains of the fortress the ancient mountaintop town of Amadiya once was.

A shrine on the shores of the Tigris.

A 605-page Quran penned in the blood of a dictator is locked away in a mosque.

Giant reed houses made in the marshes of Southern Iraq.

An ancient fortified mound raised over the millennia from settlements built one on top of the other.