Visit Masada

Herod’s Roman harbour city — amphitheatre, hippodrome and seaside aqueduct.

Harari's sweeping history of humankind (2011).

Judaism’s holiest prayer site, the retaining wall of the Second Temple.

Israel’s Holocaust memorial and museum on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem.

Freshwater lake ringed by biblical sites and lakeside hot springs.

The Israeli squad sent after the Black September operatives, and what it costs them.

The displaced-persons camps between 1945 and 1948, and the founding of Israel seen from inside them.

Stand among the cloud-wrapped ruins of Machu Picchu, the 15th-century Inca citadel perched high above Peru's Sacred Valley