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

The farmhouse owned by the Danish author who wrote "Out of Africa" is now a museum honoring her legacy.

The world’s largest permanent desert lake is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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

A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

A massive maritime collision may have led to the myth of a resort island's strange financial status.

The decaying remains of a ship whose captain mysteriously disappeared.

There is one corporation registered for every three square feet of space in this inconspicuous office building.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq until ISIS blew it up twice and then drove over it with bulldozers.

The surviving pieces of an ancient aqueduct that may have fed into the lost Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

Giant reed houses made in the marshes of Southern Iraq.

Ancient rock-cut tomb? Definitely. That of a great Median king? Unlikely.

A giant bisected onion dome remembers the Iraqis who died in the Iran-Iraq War.

An ancient fortified mound raised over the millennia from settlements built one on top of the other.

The sacred shrine of the Yazidis.

A 605-page Quran penned in the blood of a dictator is locked away in a mosque.

9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.