This vast masterpiece of Moroccan architecture spreads across 20 acres.

Deliberately hidden for centuries, the magnificent Saadian Tombs were eventually uncovered in 1917.

The largest madrasa in Morocco once housed more than 900 students within its exquisite walls.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Legend has it a commoner volunteered to be buried alive in the foundation so that the great fortress could be built.

The oldest still-inhabited hill fort in India looks like a magnificent golden sandcastle.

This stunning 15th-century royal hill fort preserves the age of chivalry in Rajasthan.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

This medieval manuscript collection has some of the most obscure and ancient texts in the world.

With over 10,000 lights, this engineering marvel lights up the city after dark.

When the Soviets destroyed the historic Armenian monastery they somehow left its bell tower intact.

Tower with a double-helix spiral, adorned with letters of the Georgian alphabet.

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

This architecturally eclectic fortress witnessed centuries of bloody turmoil, including the massacre of its ruling clan.

The last standing example of an ancient district's teatime tradition.

A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."