The original movie set for the home of 'Star Wars' hero Luke Skywalker.

The city walls of Salé lead to the ruins of this seaside "bastion of tears."

This restored 17th century synagogue is one of the few remaining structures in Morocco’s ruined Jewish quarters.

The world's largest concentrated solar power plant.

Crumbling necropolis set high above Fez.

This vast masterpiece of Moroccan architecture spreads across 20 acres.

Hundreds of thousands of ancient documents offer a unique glimpse into Jewish life in Cairo.

Charnel house at the foot of Mount Sinai.

The once great capital of Egypt now crumbles forward as evocative ruins.

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

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

Dedicated to this region's early settlements and rich history of salt mining.

The metal leaves on this tree are engraved with the names of Holocaust victims.

Mounds of fine golden sand that can rise nearly 500 feet tall.

A small villa said to have inspired the design of the court jester at the heart of Giuseppe Verdi's 1851 opera.

A swan-like monument on Obad's Hill honors those that defended the area from German invaders during WWII.

The last water-powered beam pumping engine in Britain.

One of the oldest bridges in Norwich was used during the English witch trials and is said to be haunted.

A gift from Emperor Franz Joseph I to his wife.