As the Dead Sea continues to deplete, massive sinkholes open along its banks.

This unassuming oasis elevated just above the busy streets of Jerusalem offers one of the best views of the Old City.

The tallest waterfall in the Judean Desert is named for its connection to a biblical figure.

A magical oasis in the middle of the Negev Desert.

You can row a boat through this ancient underground reservoir.

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

A serene desert oasis speckled with ancient artifacts.

A 2,000-year-old wine press hidden in an overlooked park in Tel Aviv.

Squeezing inside this deep, narrow canyon reveals a festival of desert colors.

This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A unique interactive experience of everyday life in communist Yugoslavia—a very different time in Croatian history.

Gargoyle head that brings good luck.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.