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The Fountain of Ahmed III as seen facing southeast and looking away from the gates of the Topkapı Palace in Constantinople (Istanbul).

The Galata Tower seen looking northeast past a burial ground. A portion of the old city wall is visible leading toward the tower on the right.

A view accross the island of Patmos with the Monastery of St. John the Theologian visible in the upper right.

Snow-capped Mount Lebanon (background) as seen from across the village of Ehden looking east.

The northern interior wall of the Temple of Bacchus, misidentified as the Temple of Jupiter, which shows a colonade of Corinthian style columns incorporated into the wall.

The ruins of the Roman temple complex at Baalbek looking north. The exterior wall of the Temple of Bacchus is visible on the right, while the six Corinthian style columns of the Temple of Jupiter are visible on the left.

A view down the Street called Straight towards the Bab Sharqi gate. The buildings on each side of the streets are in ruins, the results of the devastating massacre and riots that took place in 1860 as tensions between the Druze and Christian populations in Damascus peaked.

The ruins of a Greco-Roman style temple at Deir El Aachayer, looking south.

The snow-covered Mount Hermon (background) as seen looking south across the city of Rashaya.

A view across the mountain springs below a cave known as Pan's Grotto (right), a site of worship at ancient Caesarea Philippi (modern Banias), with the entrance to the Tomb of St. George, or El Khadir, above.

A sheer cliff overlooking the Sea of Galilee at the reputed location of Capernaum (Caphar Nahum) at a site known as Khan Minyeh.

A view of a ruined building, possibly near the Old Tiberias Cemetery in Tiberias, looking south towards the Sea of Galilee.

The Abisha Scroll, a copy of Samaritan Pentateuch, which is used in the Samaritan synagogue in Nablus.

A view of the town of Nablus and the surrounding hills.

A view of the town of Hebron with the Tomb of the Patriarchs, also known as the Mosque of al-Khalil, visible in the middle of the city.

The Convent of St. Saba (Mar Saba) as seen looking south, built into the cliffside above the Kidron River.

The town of Bethany at the modern day al-Eizariya.

The terraced Shepherds' Fields of Bethlehem.

The olive trees of the Garden of Gethsemane with the Temple Mount visible in the background.

The town of Silwan (Siloan) looking north towards the Temple Mount (beyond the hill).

The tombs of Absalom, Saint James (Benei Hezir), and Zechariah in the Valley of Jehoshaphat (Kidron Valley) by the Mount of Olives.