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If you walked onto Paris’s Champ-de-Mars in the spring of 1889, you’d pass under a brand-new iron giant nearly 984

The Eiffel Tower didn’t spring fully formed from one mind. It began as a bold engineering sketch in 1884, sharpened

Imagine gliding above rush-hour traffic in a cable car, watching the city unfold beneath your feet. This isn’t a theme-park

The Dead Sea’s shores stretch along Israel/West Bank to the west and Jordan to the east, meeting at Earth’s lowest

The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most important archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. Found in caves near Qumran

UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Born in the aftermath of World War II, it was

The Dead Sea, straddling Israel, the West Bank, and Jordan, is famous for water so dense you float without trying.

Perched on a basalt plateau at the edge of the Vorotan River gorge in Syunik Province, Tatev Monastery is one

Wave-swept air from the Black Sea meets citrus-scented foothills at the mouth of the Chorokhi River, 12–15 km south of Batumi.

Oksukon Lake (Tajik: Кӯли Оксукон) is a 3.4 sq mi (8.9 km²) salt-mud lake in Tajikistan’s Asht District, Sughd Region,