Oran is a major port city on Algeria’s western Mediterranean coast, set around a broad bay beneath the hills of Mount Murdjadjo. Its urban landscape combines a busy harbour, broad avenues, older quarters, and coastal neighborhoods. Oran is also strongly associated with raï music, a popular Algerian style that developed in the western part of the country.

Almost every modern scene in Constanta, Romania, is juxtaposed against 4th century Roman relics.

Dodoma, the capital of Tanzania, is a city that sits in the heart of the country, surrounded by rolling hills and semi-arid plains.

The former Netherlands Antilles was a group of Caribbean islands once unified under Dutch administration, dissolved as a political entity in 2010.

Tikal is one of the most extraordinary ancient cities in Guatemala, hidden deep in the Petén region’s tropical forests. Once called Yax Mutal by its Maya builders, these ruins reveal thousands of years of history in carved stone stelae and towering limestone structures, some of which rise more than 60 meters above the jungle floor. Today, visitors can walk among the Great Plaza and gaze up at the Temple of the Great Jaguar and the Temple of the Masks, reminders of the city’s long legacy.