Long before air conditioning, Persian architects found an ingenious way to cool off.

Iranian tombstones shaped like male and female sexual organs.

Named after a legendary garden called Eram in southern Arabia, built by order of Shaddad, an Arab king who wanted to compete with Paradise.

This 17th-century structure is a beautiful testimony to traditional Persian architecture

This remote mountain shrine is one of the most sacred Zoroastrian temples remaining in the world.

The largest covered bazaar in the world.

The cathedral stands in New Jufa, Isfahan's Armenian quarter that was established in 1606.

Marked by the hand of the explorer Henry Morton Stanley.