Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.

A huge communist-era propaganda monument and mural that offers stunning views of the Mongolian capital.

The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.

Lonely minaret stump of a destroyed city.

Looking for a unifying history, Uzbekistan finds its answer in a 14th Century Turco-Mongol conqueror... despite the fact he wasn't Uzbek.

Where the father of Persian poetry is laid to rest.

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

Where Stoddart and Connolly suffered in the infamous Bug Pit.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

A strangely forgotten claimant to the much contested title of "Source of the Nile."

The hottest place on the planet.

Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.

Rusting railcars and locomotive equipment fill this Ethiopian train graveyard.

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.