Babylon was not simply built. It was imposed.

Raised from mud and water, ordered by ritual and repetition, it became a city that expected obedience and assumed endurance. Walls, symbols, and law worked together to give Babylon a singular confidence: that it would remain, long after those who shaped it were gone.

Dunluce Castle was built on a narrow headland above the North Atlantic, where its dramatic position shaped both its strength and its eventual abandonment.

For centuries, Al-Balad was the working heart of Jeddah, a Red Sea gateway shaped by pilgrimage, trade, and constant arrival. Built from coral stone quarried from the sea itself and cooled by timber rawashin, the city evolved to endure heat, density, and movement rather than spectacle. Today, as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Al-Balad remains a living urban landscape, where restoration, daily life, and deep history continue side by side.

Victoria falls reveals how a landscape moves through time. This is the story of a river, a gorge and the smoke that thunders.

From the banks of the Taff, Cyfarthfa Ironworks powered an empire. Its rails reached Russia, its cannons sailed to Canada and Trevithick’s revolutionary steam engine changed transport forever. Few places in Wales shaped the world like Cyfarthfa.

From the narrow Siq to the Treasury and the Monastery, Petra tells the story of a civilisation that thrived in one of the harshest landscapes on Earth. This is the history, engineering and wonder behind Jordan’s most ancient city.

On Turkey’s Aegean coast lies Ephesus — the city that became time itself. Once home to the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, it rose and fell with empires, leaving behind marble streets, grand theatres, and whispers of gods and emperors.

Once a raoring hub of Welsh tinplate innovation, Aberdulais powered its forges with the River Dulais. The skills honed here helped shaped industries across the Atlantic, earning a small valley a global legacy in metal and might.

Albania is a country littered with 700 000 concrete bunkers — monuments to a war that never came. From secret police hideouts to underground theatres, these Cold War relics tell a story of fear, control and survival etched into the landscape.

From Blood River to Isandlwana, Rorke’s Drift and Talana Hill, South Africa’s battlefields echo with stories of courage, loss, and resilience. These landscapes witnessed clashes that shaped nations — and still carry the silence of memory today.

Explore Uplistsikhe, Georgia’s ancient cave city, where stone chambers and forgotten rituals echo through time.

South Africa’s Blyde River Canyon, where earth, sky and story meet in the world’s third largest canyon.

Once a vibrant island community just offshore from Kuwait City, Failaka now stands abandoned—its home bombed, schools empty, and banks scarred by execution. This is not just a place lost to war, but a monument to memory. Explore the ruins of the Gulf War’s forgotten front line.

An island once sacred to the gods, ruled by Greeks, and scarred by war. Failaka is where myth, trade, and trauma collide beneath the desert sun.

Journey to the heart of Sri Lanka’s ancient skies with Sigiriya — a stone citadel of kings, dreams, and vanished empires.

Walk through the dust of kings and the silence of ziggurats. In Ur, memory is carved in clay and shadow, where the past still whispers through every ruin.

Discover one of the world’s oldest cities — where civilisation began.