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Reaching the "Church in the Sky" requires scaling the cliff face of a sandstone pinnacle with a 650-foot drop.

The hottest place on the planet.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

Standing atop 2nd-century Roman ruins, this church is one of the oldest and most iconic in Old Cairo.

Part shoe store, part sociopolitical art gallery, part zoo.

The deadliest diving spot in the world is also a stunning geological marvel.

Ancient Egyptian relief, claimed to depict an electrical light.

Even King Tut was intrigued by the glass of the Great Sand Sea.

Brightly painted boulders scattered throughout the Sinai Desert.

A preserved oasis with traditional Andalusian-style architecture and beautiful views of the Nile.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

Known as the Sistine Chapel of Egypt, this tomb houses some of the most well-preserved paintings in Egypt.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

A massive work of modern art that appears to be a crop circle in the middle of the desert.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

Eritrea's futuristic gas station is a nod to Italy's fascist history.

Wander among hulking piles of rusted machinery left over from the Eritrean-Ethiopian War.

Rimmed by white crusts of salt on every edge, Lac Assal is one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world.

A salt lake dotted with steaming limestone chimneys.

One of the last refuges of the endangered eastern lowland gorilla.