Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

This vast masterpiece of Moroccan architecture spreads across 20 acres.

This 16th-century Moroccan fortress-turned-armory museum offers prime views of the historic quarter in Fes.

Deliberately hidden for centuries, the magnificent Saadian Tombs were eventually uncovered in 1917.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

A fortress off the West coast of Portugal that dates back to 1502.

A windswept necropolis carved into the rocks overlooks the "most Portuguese town in Portugal."

This once-forgotten oasis in the middle of Lisbon was first created over a century ago quite by accident.

An ancient tomb that still stands in Portugal.

In Portugal, a secluded stretch of untouched natural beauty hides at the bottom of a steep hill.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

A cluster of granite granaries perched on stilts.

A majestic hotel for dreamers rises from the center of a fairytale wood.

Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.

This crumbling Portuguese ruin overlooks the populace it once ruled.

The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

A ghost village sits atop a mountain within Jordan’s largest biosphere reserve.

These ruins by the Dead Sea is where John the Baptist met his untimely end.

Perched above the bustling town of Kerak is a sprawling, ruinous castle that has witnessed nearly a millennia of Levantine history.

Just outside of Jordan's capital lies an ancient castle and intriguing caves dating back to the Copper Age.