Visit Hebron

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

Ninth-century mosque with the spiralling Malwiya minaret.

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

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.

Ancient Saharan town of desert libraries.

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.