The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

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

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

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

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

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

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

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

Held in a fort that once stood for colonization of the area, this museum now tells the history of its indigenous people.

A public display of prehistoric space rocks is named for the Namibian village where they were found.

Ancient artists in the middle of nowhere.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

The oldest trees in Northern Germany.

This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

Over 12,000 hygiene oriented objects and exhibits.

The natural mummy of the less than chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.