Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

An ancient underground cultic temple where sunlight penetrates on the summer solstice.

This "Jewish Sistine Chapel" was designed to reinvigorate Judaism's artistic legacy but was almost lost to misguided restoration.

As the Dead Sea continues to deplete, massive sinkholes open along its banks.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

The bluer than blue waters in these natural Israeli caves are reached via the world's steepest cable car.

These numerous Israeli caves were dug out over hundreds years for reasons ranging from hideouts to burial sites.