The Zambia Railway Museum, a few hundred metres west of Livingstone Station, is a collection of old engines and rolling stock that opens every morning with the bang of a rail. To many people the place looks like a rusty pile of scrap metal, but there are examples of railway equipment that can hardly be found anywhere else in the world, so it is quite popular with tourists.
Khan-Al-Khalili is a large market in the Muslim neighbourhood of Cairo, one of the city's striking landmarks. The square that Khan-Al-Khalili occupies was originally the site of the Saffron Tomb mausoleum, the burial place of the Fatimid caliphs. Emir Al-Khalili ordered the destruction of the Fatimid cemetery in 1382 in order to build a large caravanserai. At that time, this was the central... read more
In the heart of Athens, northwest of the Acropolis, lie the ruins of the Ancient Agora. During the period of ancient Greece (from about the beginning of the 6th century BC) it was the political, financial, administrative, cultural and religious ce... read more
