Al Ula, Saudi Arabia
Al 'Ula
Within the Saudi Arabian desert lies a 2,000-year-old ghost town made of stone and mud.
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Al Ula, Saudi Arabia
Within the Saudi Arabian desert lies a 2,000-year-old ghost town made of stone and mud.
Saudi Arabia
Site where Moses may have received the Ten Commandments.
Jbeil, Lebanon
A patchwork of ruins from various civilizations in one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities.
Baalbek, Lebanon
The largest hewn stone in history.
Beirut, Lebanon
Beirut's thinnest building was the result of feuding brothers.
Neyshabur, Iran
The beautifully designed resting place of Iran's national poet is a masterpiece of modern Persian architecture.
Iran
This remote mountain shrine is one of the most sacred Zoroastrian temples remaining in the world.
Kish, Iran
This steamship has been beautifully rusting off the coast of an Iranian island since the 1960s.
Tabriz, Iran
The largest covered bazaar in the world.
Ramhormoz, Iran
Leaking natural gas never stops burning on this hill, making it an infinite inferno.
Tabriz, Iran
Colorful mineral deposits turn these mountains into an Impressionist fantasy.
Viyar, Iran
Two Chinese dragons guard the caves of this medieval temple in Iran.
Iran
Iranian tombstones shaped like male and female sexual organs.
Isfahan, Iran
This 17th-century structure is a beautiful testimony to traditional Persian architecture
Shooshtar, Iran
This beautiful system of tunnels built into natural rock serves as a centuries old plumbing system.
Kish, Iran
Hydraulic systems in an ancient underground Iranian city.
Isfahan, Iran
These little castles each held thousands of pigeons.
Shiraz, Iran
Named after a legendary garden called Eram in southern Arabia, built by order of Shaddad, an Arab king who wanted to compete with Paradise.
East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
This lake in northwest Iran has started turning from green to red more frequently than scientists are comfortable with.
Iran
This ancient burial site is believed to be one of the first earthquake-protected structures in the world.
Hormuz, Iran
The colorful soil of Iran’s "Rainbow Island" attracts artists and nature lovers.
Kerman, Iran
The hottest, driest, and most scenic desert on Earth.
Nashtifan, Iran
The vertical-axis windmills of ancient Persia have been grinding flour for 1,000 years and counting.
Iran
A sophisticated astronomical tower built by one of the greatest Persian scholars of the Islamic Golden Age.