An everyday Jackson Heights bodega conceals a Mexican seafood paradise.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

After being destroyed by IRA sympathizers, the ruins of this stately Irish manor have sat vacant for decades.

Strolling through these vintage locomotives offers a surprising amount of insight into the history of Kenya.

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

This colonial fort is an intriguing example of Renaissance military architecture.

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

Located in Nairobi National Park, this animal orphanage is the oldest of its kind in Kenya.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

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

The “Thumb” of Mauritius provides a 360 degree view of the entire country.

A series of sculptures depict the actors who starred in the many cowboy movies shot in this Mexican city.

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

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

This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

This Bronx apartment building is officially recognized as the birthplace of hip-hop.

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

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