On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

For more than 40 years this Barnum-inspired half-fox, half-woman has been telling fortunes from her cage in a Pakistani zoo.

Reputedly haunted sandstone necropolis with exquisite stone carvings.

The world's largest Tibetan refugee settlement.

The second-deepest known cave on Earth, hidden in an extremely remote mountain region.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

The oldest Buddhist monastery in Mongolia has survived centuries of invasions, political shifts, and religious purges.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

A small Rwandan workshop where you'll find traditional works of art—made from cow dung.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.