A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

A station built to repel pirates now attracts wealthy vacationers.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

An ancient Phoenician citadel once stood at the site where Queen Dido first landed, according to legend.

The ancient heart of Tunis is an enormous maze of narrow streets and alleyways.

American bombs, morbid memorabilia, and graphic photographs tell the story of the CIA-led “Secret War” from the Pathet Lao perspective.

When the USA donated cement and funds to expand the airport in Laos, the Laotians built a massive monument instead.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

Concentrated around the Dead Sea, these surprising canyons are filled with coursing water, fish, and even crabs.

A ghost village sits atop a mountain within Jordan’s largest biosphere reserve.

Perched above the bustling town of Kerak is a sprawling, ruinous castle that has witnessed nearly a millennia of Levantine history.

God's Saharan sandbox of wrath.

Thousands of narrow alleyways in an ancient medieval city make up what's believed to be the world's largest car-free urban zone.

One of the most spectacular canyons in the world.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

Morocco’s modern capital was once a haven for Barbary pirates, who went so far as to establish a republic of their own.

This 16th-century Moroccan fortress-turned-armory museum offers prime views of the historic quarter in Fes.

The courtyard of this small Marinid madrasa is a dazzling example of intricate Islamic architecture.

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.

Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.

Crumbling necropolis set high above Fez.

The ruins of an early-18th-century complex that could once house up to 12,000 horses.

The city walls of Salé lead to the ruins of this seaside "bastion of tears."