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These numerous Israeli caves were dug out over hundreds years for reasons ranging from hideouts to burial sites.

Magnificent Roman ruins lie vulnerable to destruction on the edge of the Mediterranean.

Landscape of bizarrely shaped desert mountains and innumerable rock carvings.

The abstract sandstone rock formations at this Algerian national park are rich with prehistoric art.

Classical ruins that remember ancient Rome's presence in Africa.

The original resting place of Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony's only daughter.

An extraordinary mix of Phoenician, Roman, early Christian, and Byzantine ruins beautifully set overlooking the Mediterranean.

This dizzying span over the ancient Algerian city was once the highest suspension bridge in the world.

The mummified remains of Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Russia's most important Buddhist.

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

Legends of time travel and magical woodland creatures bolster the natural charm of this verdant sanctuary in the midst of Moscow.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

Crumbling necropolis set high above Fez.