A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

Standing atop 2nd-century Roman ruins, this church is one of the oldest and most iconic in Old Cairo.

A strange aquarium with stuffed fish, and almost no water for them to swim in.

A preserved oasis with traditional Andalusian-style architecture and beautiful views of the Nile.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

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.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

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

An endless sea of white conical domes.

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.

Time stands still at this serene burial ground in the center of Budapest.

A Hungarian optometrist's charming collection of Asian art and curiosities.

A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.