Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

A strangely forgotten claimant to the much contested title of "Source of the Nile."

Kenyan restaurant is a carnivore's paradise, serving exotic meats at its ultimate 'Beast of a Feast.'

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

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.

Built by a North Korean team this monument to African dictator Laurent Kabila has a suspiciously Kim Jong Il shaped body.

Morocco's largest Jewish cemetery.

A favorite with sightseers, this Norwegian funicular provides easy access to a stunning view of Bergen and its environs.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

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

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.

This historic rec center in the heart of Israel is a bastion of peace and togetherness.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

Sweden's oldest animated sign is still lighting up the skyline today.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

Enormous statue of the Emperor of the Mongols.

This bridge made famous in a novel and on-screen wasn't actually built over the river Kwai.

Khmer Rouge's high security prison.

A gruesome memorial for those lost in this area during the Khmer Rouge genocide.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.