This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

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

The last operating synagogue in Afghanistan is run by Zablon Simintov, the last remaining Jew in Afghanistan.

200-foot-high minaret and only remnant of Afghanistan's lost city of the Turquoise Mountain.

A typographic tribute to the many comedic greats who make Great Britain laugh.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

A surprising number of shipwrecks visible just off the Somaliland coast.

A MiG-17 fighter jet sits atop this memorial to the indiscriminate bombardment of Hargeisa.

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.

A giant bisected onion dome remembers the Iraqis who died in the Iran-Iraq War.

Mysterious lost empire of the Silk Road.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

One of the oldest and largest castles in the world.

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

Ghost Town in the Demilitarized Zone of the Golan Heights.

3D war panorama in Damascus built with help from North Korea.

This living legend of maritime history is enjoying a second life.

This nearly abandoned plantation was once witness to an eclipse that proved Einstein's theory of relativity.

Built by a North Korean team this monument to African dictator Laurent Kabila has a suspiciously Kim Jong Il shaped body.

This mosque is an enduring symbol of Central African Republic's rich Muslim heritage.

Amidst political unrest, this Roman Catholic Cathedral has helped organize peace talks.

For millennia, explorers were obsessed with discovering the source of the Nile—is this small mountain stream really the answer?

A hiking/biking/exploring trail that winds across over 140 miles of Rwandan shoreline.

Freddie Mercury's childhood home is now a monument to the iconic Queen rockstar.