These sweets make convincing mimics of everything from fish balls to eggs to koi ponds.

An imperial art museum offers edible versions of its most treasured displays in an on-site fine-dining restaurant.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

An extraordinary mix of Phoenician, Roman, early Christian, and Byzantine ruins beautifully set overlooking the Mediterranean.

The ancient heart of Tunis is an enormous maze of narrow streets and alleyways.

The largest salt lake in the Sahara is mysteriously alluring.

Made famous by "Star Wars," these troglodyte homes face an uncertain future.

The best-preserved Roman small town in North Africa.

The largest and best-preserved Roman amphitheater in Africa was designed to seat 35,000 people.

A deserted Bedouin village lines the shores of this stunning desert oasis.

This communist country can still appreciate its fragrant past.

Learn the history of Dominican rum production.

This trio of Dominican cave lakes comprise a colorful biosphere of natural life.

No one is quite sure of the origins of these idyllic natural hot springs at an abandoned mountain resort.

The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.

A monster in the plant world, up to 10 feet tall and smelling of death.

This Balinese sea temple is thought to be guarded by the hundreds of monkeys that live around it.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

This odd museum/art gallery embraces the physiological, zoological, and ethnographic side of sex.

About as hidden as can be, this specialty coffee shop is wedged between multi-story buildings at the end of a dark, skinny alleyway in Seoul.

One man and his wife have turned a barren Korean island into a fantastical botanical wonderland.