The red letters in the literary pavement leading to the library form a mysterious code.

Prehistoric sandstone menhir with Early Bronze Age cup and ring markings, also known as Robin Hood's Stone.

Pyramid shaped monument with a tall tale attached.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

An important landmark in the history of algebraic logic.

Plaques celebrating Lithuanian writers freckle a wall of this picture-perfect path.

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

A 300-kilogram egg sculpture that embodied a neighborhood revival.

Travelers who fall victim to this mermaid's charms are destined to stay in Užupis forever.

A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.

A surprising number of shipwrecks visible just off the Somaliland coast.

The medieval center of the Islamic world was also once the seat of Saladin's sultanate.

Slum Settlement Filled With Mountains of Garbage.

Located near Cairo's El Korba district, the abandoned mansion continues to inspire mystery and rumor throughout the city.

Source for a sizable portion of Egypt's freshwater supply is more than an optical illusion.

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

This unassuming tree stump reportedly traces its roots to the famous pharaoh queen's reign.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

A powerful tribute to the victims who suffered under Ethiopia's most devastating regime.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

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

The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.

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.