This bazaar is one of the oldest in the Arabian world.

This beautifully restored fortification kept the city safe for centuries.

Skyscraper powered by wind turbines attached between its towers.

The building is a gigantic piece of art inspired by the shape of a desert rose.

Qatar's oldest market can trace its origins back more than a century.

A superb spot to appreciate the traditional boats of the Indian Ocean.

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

These gnarly desert trees produce the prized aromatic resin traded along the ancient incense trail.

Experience what life was like in Ireland during the Viking and medieval ages.

One of the largest legal spray spots in Hamburg.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

Site of the first radio and telephone broadcasting companies in Copenhagen.

An old Danish political institution where members of government can grab a drink off the record.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.