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

A historic chapel filled with colorful murals and a colorful past.

As the Dead Sea continues to deplete, massive sinkholes open along its banks.

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

The tallest waterfall in the Judean Desert is named for its connection to a biblical figure.

The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in the ruins of this ancient monastic community.

The remains of this ancient fortress atop a manmade hill look as though they were built into a volcano.

An ancient tunnel in Jerusalem built to redirect water in the event of a siege is one of history’s great architectural innovations.

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

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

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

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.