Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Abandoned blockhouses from Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall erode into the sea on a French beach.

Beneath the city of Lourdes, France is a massive, concrete church.

These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.

The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.

In this African village, the walls of the chief's compound are painted with beautiful traditional designs.

The world's largest church atop a political fault line.

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.

At the center of an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean is a deep chasm ringed by tall waterfalls.

Réunion Island's highest point is a 2 million-year-old volcano and a paraglider's paradise.