Balancing rocks and ancient rock art.
Stone city of a medieval empire, UNESCO-listed.
Thousand-year-old stone fortress walls in the forest — Burkina Faso's only UNESCO site, tied to the medieval gold trade.
The "Louvre of the Desert": 4,500 rock paintings on quartzite hills sacred to the San for 100,000 years.
Maya "Pompeii" buried by ash, UNESCO-listed.
Island of ancient ruins and war history.
Mysterious fields of giant stone jars.
Maya city of carved stelae, UNESCO-listed.
Sandstone arches and rock art in the Sahara.
Red-stone Jesuit mission, UNESCO-listed.
Kushite temples standing alone in the desert east of the Nile.
Ruins of the ancient Carthaginian capital.
Roman theatre beside the Mediterranean.
Vivid 5,000-year-old cave paintings.
Ancient rock fortress with frescoes.
Greek ruins above the coast, UNESCO-listed.
Sacred mountain and pyramids, UNESCO-listed.
Cave monastery above a river bend.
Giant Roman amphitheatre, UNESCO-listed.
Saharan rock art and sand seas.
Maya temples rising above the jungle.
More pyramids than all of Egypt.
Medieval capital explored by bicycle — the Gal Vihara rock Buddhas and the royal palace ruins.
Sri Lanka’s first capital: giant brick dagobas, monastic ruins and the 2,300-year-old sacred Bodhi tree.
One of the finest Roman cities, UNESCO-listed.
Karst islets, mangrove channels and Taino cave art.
Maya ruins reached by hand-cranked ferry, topped by the El Castillo pyramid.
Belize's largest Maya city in the jungle.
Bahrain's history and Dilmun treasures.
Saudi Arabia's Nabataean rock tombs.
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