This colorful palace is an oasis of calm amid the hustle and bustle of the Buriganga riverfront.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

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

This fortress dates back to the 6th century and is also the site of a controversial abandoned restoration project.

This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.

This 23-foot-tall bear stands amid the hustle and bustle of Hamad International Airport.

This fountain pays homage to Qatar's history of pearling, the primary industry before oil.

The shallow, salty inlet was a safe haven for 19th-century pirates.

Qatar's oldest market can trace its origins back more than a century.

An intimate look into the apartments of Jounieh via cable car.

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.

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

The largest hewn stone in history.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

In one of the smallest countries in the world stands an original Salvador Dalí sculpture.

A medieval church built up to defend its village.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."