This abandoned church in central Lyon is missing its front stairs.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.

This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.

This monument is a stark reminder of the horrors of the Zanzibar slave trade.

An exquisite and eclectic selection of African masks stands out within a massive woodcarving marketplace.

Freddie Mercury's childhood home is now a monument to the iconic Queen rockstar.

After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

This local art collective supports contemporary artists through a coveted residency program.

Kenya’s oldest town is more than 700 years old and home to 6,000 donkeys.

This tourist village in Nairobi celebrates the traditional lifestyles and customs of Kenyan tribes.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

Every Friday, Sufi dervishes whirl around the tomb in a trance-like state as part of a sacred ritual called dhikr.

Crumbling pyramids and temple ruins stand within the shadow of this sacred butte.

All that remains of Jacques Cousteau's 1960s underwater "village."

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.

This artificial archipelago was supposed to resemble a map of the world.

This remote British Imperial telegraph relay outpost drove men insane.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.