A 900-year-old village located in the highland of the Asir region that features historic architecture.

Abandoned station along an ancient pilgrimage route.

These towering cliffs jut dramatically from the middle of a barren desert.

A 19th-century fortress and collection of artifacts offer a tour of Saudi history.

This religious site features Nepal’s largest statue of Buddha.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.

A brick building in Kathmandu's Durbar Square is home to Nepal's most prominent living goddess.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.

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

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.