Places n77u Wants to Go

Hidden away in a back alley, this Art Nouveau cafe has been in business since 1882.

This North African stone complex is considered to be the oldest astronomical observatory on Earth.

A hyper-remote desert cave dramatized in "The English Patient."

Giant pigeon houses packed into city streets in Egypt.

A strange aquarium with stuffed fish, and almost no water for them to swim in.

Some believe that this ancient mural depicts technology far ahead of its time, but in reality it's nothing quite out of place.

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

Brightly painted boulders scattered throughout the Sinai Desert.

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

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

Egyptian treasure trove of fossils documenting the whale's transition from land mammal to sea creature.

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

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

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

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

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

An endless sea of white conical domes.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

This jar honors the role that pottery has played in this Tunisian village over the past millennia.

An awesome blend of traditional architecture and street art.

A superb Paleo-Christian baptismal pool is preserved among the ruins of ancient Sufetula.

An eerie ship cemetery with gunfire as a soundtrack.

A charming Amazigh village carved into a mountaintop.