It’s hard to miss York Minster. Literally. One minute you’re wandering cobbled alleys and timbered lanes of old York, and the next—*bam!*—a colossal Gothic masterpiece rises in front of you like a stone ship frozen in time. York Minster doesn’t whisper its presence. It commands it. And once inside, it completely takes your breath away.

If tombs could talk, the Valley of the Kings would never stop whispering. Tucked into the arid cliffs west of the Nile in Luxor, this haunting necropolis has held the secrets of Egypt's most powerful pharaohs for over three thousand years. Here, in a sun-scorched landscape carved by time and devotion, lie the eternal homes of rulers who once believed they'd live forever.