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

A devasting 2020 fire left this historic seminary in ruins.

Count the statues to gain insight into your future from Buddhist disciples.

Four steel monoliths stand in the Qatari desert, in a breathtaking work of large-scale art by Richard Serra.

This massive piece of aviation history calls this residential neighborhood home.

A colonial-era fort with panoramic views across the border of Timor-Leste, now home to a hotel.

This tile-work piece featuring a chicken riding in carriage is both a remarkable artistic creation and a social commentary of politics and culture in 17th-century Portugal.

An architectural relic that survived the hands of time.

An unassuming music museum recounts the rags to riches story of a dramatic Portuguese genre.

A deer-headed statue that brings together a 12th-century legend and big wave surfing.

Entire apothecaries are on display at this Lisbon museum, which explores the history of medicine.

These narrow stone granaries have been used to store and dry out grain for hundreds of years.

The crumbling ruins of an abandoned 12th-century monastery.

This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.

Over the course of its history, this tiny island has held enslaved people in transit and served as a quarantine zone. Today, it's a giant tortoise sanctuary.

When the sun sets, the customers arrive—but they’re not human.

Though it was originally dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva, Baphuon was converted to a Buddhist temple in the 15th century, complete with a massive hidden statue.

Once a highly polluted body of water has now been transformed into a gorgeous lagoon.

The largest open-pit gold mine in Canada.

The roofless ruins of a church surrounded by acres of bucolic farmland.

A reconstituted ancestral village of the Huron-Wendat Nation.

Little remains of the once flourishing Asbestos' asbestos mine.

Portugal's National Pantheon has a history of curses, collapses and financial problems.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.