Visit the Great Mosque of Samarra

15th-century mosque at Bagerhat, UNESCO-listed.

One of Islam’s oldest and grandest mosques, glittering with gold mosaics.

Istanbul's six-minareted mosque.

Ancient city of the Patriarchs.

Remote 65-metre brick minaret, alone in a river gorge since the 12th century.

Pyramidal earthen tomb of the Songhai emperor, bristling with wooden stakes.

Sunken Byzantine reservoir under Istanbul, its columns rising from black water.

Colonnaded temple in the middle of Luxor, best at night when the pharaonic statues and obelisk are floodlit.