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This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

Concentrated around the Dead Sea, these surprising canyons are filled with coursing water, fish, and even crabs.

A refurbished locomotive from a bygone era in the middle of the Jordanian desert.

Known as the "Valley of the Moon," this Jordanian wadi is one of the most amazing desertscapes on Earth.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

Unscathed for almost 2,000 years, the best preserved Roman triumphal arch is in a small southern Italian city.

It took more than 300 years to build this church, which is home to two sacred vessels believed to hold the blood of Christ.

The largest Roman amphitheater in the Balkans once held over 20,000 people, but managed to lay hidden for hundreds of years.

Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.

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

The ruins of the largest gladiatorial school in Rome are largely hidden under modern streets.

Mausoleum and Holy Seat of Antiochus I of Commagene.

The ancient abodes are a testament to human ingenuity amid harsh climates.

This 18th-century complex has served as a mosque, mausoleum, and one of the largest caravanserais in India.

The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.

The ruins of a monastery that dates to the 7th century.

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

This Neolithic passage tomb forms part of a World Heritage Site.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

An ancient neolithic tomb that only sees the sun twice a year.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.