The only quarter of the Old City not dedicated to a major world religion.

Oldest Protestant church in the Middle East, designed to resemble a synagogue.

The maze-like transportation hub contains abandoned areas, derelict stores, and a resident bat colony.

An ancient underground cultic temple where sunlight penetrates on the summer solstice.

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

A Biblically notable site over the ruins of an ancient city that is now a protected World Heritage site.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.

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

The bluer than blue waters in these natural Israeli caves are reached via the world's steepest cable car.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

The tiny Belgian town's ancient version of Mardi Gras involves eerie wax masks, sticks for warding off evil, and ostrich plume hats.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.

The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.

A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.