Places worth understanding, not just seeing.
Short guides to the sites travelers ask about most — what happened there, what you actually see today, and what it takes to visit properly.
Dead Sea & Negev
Masada, Qumran, Ein Gedi and the desert that shaped everyone who crossed it.
Galilee
The lake, Capernaum, Mount Tabor and the green north where most of the Gospel narrative takes place.
Jerusalem
The Old City, the Temple Mount, the tunnels beneath the Western Wall, and the ridge of the Mount of Olives.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Six denominations share one building, a ladder has not moved since the eighteenth century, and the traditional sites of the…
Dome of the Rock
The gold-domed shrine on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, completed in 691. Whether non-Muslims can go in, when the platform is open,…
Garden of Gethsemane
The Garden of Gethsemane sits at the foot of the Mount of Olives. Its olive trees date to the twelfth…
Mount of Olives
The best view of the Temple Mount, the oldest continuously used cemetery in the world, and a walk downhill through…
Temple Mount
The Temple Mount, or Haram al-Sharif, is a 37-acre platform in Jerusalem sacred to Judaism and Islam. Visiting hours, access…
Via Dolorosa
The Via Dolorosa runs 600 meters through the Old City, marking fourteen Stations of the Cross. A devotional route, not…
Western Wall Tunnels
The Western Wall most visitors see is about seventy meters long. The wall itself runs for four hundred and eighty-eight,…