A serene desert oasis speckled with ancient artifacts.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

The deadliest diving spot in the world is also a stunning geological marvel.

One of the few guarded stops along the great spice route.

As the Dead Sea continues to deplete, massive sinkholes open along its banks.

A more chill but no less fascinating version of the famous ancient archeological site.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years old and harbors many surprises.

An ancient underground cultic temple where sunlight penetrates on the summer solstice.

Israel's first dedicated natural history museum is home to 5 million specimens and still growing.

Hidden beneath a washing machine in a fake kibbutz, this secret bullet factory has been preserved as a museum.

Biblical beasts and endangered animal preservation come together in this Israeli zoo.

A Biblically notable site over the ruins of an ancient city that is now a protected World Heritage site.

A massive, heart-shaped, wind-carved crater in the middle of the Israeli desert.

Sitting right on the border between East and West Jerusalem this modern art museum is in itself a symbol of Israel's hoped-for unity.

The most peaceful "country" in the Middle East.

This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

These numerous Israeli caves were dug out over hundreds years for reasons ranging from hideouts to burial sites.

The bluer than blue waters in these natural Israeli caves are reached via the world's steepest cable car.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

This peculiar lake of pitch is so thick and viscous that one can walk on its surface.

The site of a devastating modern-day mud volcano eruption that buried parts of a village.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.