Billed as the "largest natural flower garden in the world" this Middle Eastern show field has little competition at 45 million flowers.

The remains of a Zoroastrian temple that bore witness to a time when Aden was a flourishing trading hub.

The tallest minaret in Yemen is 150 feet high and entirely made of mud.

One of Yemen’s oldest and most beautiful mosques was named for the incredible, historical queen buried inside it.

Yemen's "Stone Palace" looks like it was carved right out of the tall stone column on which it is built.

Elaborate patterns adorn the city's disappearing traditional architecture.

This impressive system of tanks was used to store drinking water as long as 2,000 years ago.

A mesmerizing reservoir nestled at the heart of a pre-Islamic Yemeni village.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

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.

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

One of the oldest and largest castles in the world.

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

In the middle of a barren desert, a massive, solitary rocky thumb juts out.

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

Village of slate houses, built on a white marble outcrop.

More than 100 monumental tombs carved into rock are preserved at this ancient Nabataean site in the Arabian Desert.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

A genuine Little Shop of Horrors.

Hackney's newest private museum and natural curiosity shop.

A traditional American farmhouse plopped in the middle of a Piccadilly courtyard.

The ghosts of Britain's telecommunication past sit rusting away in a small village in England.

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.