CDMX's home for the world's culinary delights.

This old-school café is famous for serving coffee, chilaquiles, and the Cuban Revolution.

Mexico City's largest market contains a Willy Wonka-esque wonderland.

This one-window stand has been home to a giant vat of slowly simmering meats and an array of unique tacos for almost 50 years.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses separated by a bridge.

These haunting ruins of a 700-year-old Prehispanic city have witnessed centuries of wars and massacres.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

A former French military respite turned jungle tourism hotspot.

A patchwork of ruins from various civilizations in one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities.

One of the oldest monasteries in the world is a key pilgrimage site for both Muslims and Christians.

This ornate mosque is said to hold the remains of Muhammad's granddaughter beneath its dome of pure gold.

The Syrian headquarters of alleged hashish-smoking assassins.

Only a handful of these gorgeous historic waterwheels remain but even those are in danger from local unrest.

Three members of Syria's ruling family entombed in quiet mountain town.

One of the oldest and largest castles in the world.

Amid the rubble of Aleppo's Old Quarter, part of a historic market has been restored and re-opened.

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

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

Mysterious lost empire of the Silk Road.

This triumphal arch is the only fully standing structure that remains from Roman-era Oea.

Magnificent Roman ruins lie vulnerable to destruction on the edge of the Mediterranean.

Arguing within this idyllic, circular volcanic lake is forbidden.

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.

Lyon's miniature version of the Eiffel Tower was built as a statement in support of French secularism.