This rare effigy of the author spent years lost in storage.

A special train service transported Sydney's dead from this station to "Necropolis Receiving Houses" at Rookwood Cemetery.

People can't get enough of these adorable Japanese photobooths.

Native Australian lizards inhabit this garden celebrating Sydney and its sister city in China.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

Though considered an eyesore by some, this boxy Brutalist high-rise plays a significant role in Sydney's past.

The yawning remains of a complex naval fortress still haunt this Australian shore.

The Victoria-era quarantine station for Sydney.

On holy holidays, Israel's second president used this room atop Mount Zion as a refuge to read the Torah.

Two innocuous monuments found in separate locations attempt to unite a city.

An ancient tunnel in Jerusalem built to redirect water in the event of a siege is one of history’s great architectural innovations.

Descend 2,030 years into the past in an ancient tunnel built to support Jerusalem's most famous wall.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

Oldest Protestant church in the Middle East, designed to resemble a synagogue.

This clock is an architectural flourish that stands out as a landmark among a unique Israeli German community.

Tel Aviv's popular neighborhood went though endless waves of transformation.

A modern-day cabinet of curiosities housed in a 300-year-old inn.

One of only three fountains created by the iconic architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

A network of ancient Egyptian tombs built into the cliff face along the Nile.

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

Ancient Egyptian relief, claimed to depict an electrical light.

The city-sized home palace of one of ancient Egypt's most powerful rulers gives us a rare look into the lives of the epoch's rulers.