A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

This "tower of death" has acted as an observatory, a religious hub, and an executioner's lair.

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

What was once supposed to be the symbol of a shining Afghan future is now a bombed-out ruin.

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

Rusted structures stand like ghosts of Cyprus' 6,000-year-old copper industry.

A crumbling ghost town with prime views of the dam that doomed it.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

This former Cyprus flight hub is now a crumbling, abandoned ghost complex.

This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

Billed as the "largest natural flower garden in the world" this Middle Eastern show field has little competition at 45 million flowers.

This ancient mountain monastery welcomes all manner of faith in an effort to keep Christians in Syria.

A 1,500-year-old ghost settlement is slowly fading away.

Mysterious lost empire of the Silk Road.

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

Village of slate houses, built on a white marble outcrop.

More than 100 monumental tombs carved into rock are preserved at this ancient Nabataean site in the Arabian Desert.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

This bazaar is one of the oldest in the Arabian world.

A sinkhole and now a swimming hole, too, full of dazzling turquoise water.

An imposing Omani fortress surrounded by date palm trees.

A monumental underground karstic wonderland is also the water source for over a million citizens of Beirut.

Some 20,000 dust-covered unwanted vehicles languish in the desert.