An outstanding and haunting glimpse of the horrors of the Great Famine of Ireland.

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

The ruins of an 800-year-old monastery boasts the tallest round tower in Ireland.

A shrine of fire worship built on top of a natural flame.

An 18-meter-long sarcophagus of a constantly growing dead prophet.

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

A patchwork of ruins from various civilizations in one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities.

A monumental underground karstic wonderland is also the water source for over a million citizens of Beirut.

After this one-of-a-kind palace was built the architect's hands are said to have been cut off to keep it that way.

This historic rec center in the heart of Israel is a bastion of peace and togetherness.

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

Giant stone letters dedicated to the founder of Armenia's alphabet.

With over 10,000 lights, this engineering marvel lights up the city after dark.

The building's fluid, wavelike walls are a true feat of architectural ingenuity.

This mysterious but iconic tapered tower appears in many Azeri fairytales and legends.

A unique museum dedicated to culture and artistry of carpet weaving.

A massive collection of petroglyphs dating back some 40,000 years.

The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.

Dedicated to a Bolshevik revolutionary, this museum is a true time capsule of the Soviet era.

An exquisite example of Uyghur Islamic architecture.

Lonely minaret stump of a destroyed city.