A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

A jagged silhouette of shamanistic stone heaps rises from the shore of this dazzling mile-high lake.

The grassy landscape is home to the world's last truly wild horses.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

Putrefaction plateaus in Iran, where the dead were sent for decontamination before going to their final resting place.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

The forgotten mummies of Dakhla oasis.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

Source for a sizable portion of Egypt's freshwater supply is more than an optical illusion.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

Thousands of artifacts tell Mongolia's military history, from the Bronze Age to the present.

A huge communist-era propaganda monument and mural that offers stunning views of the Mongolian capital.

An institution dedicated to curiosity, logic, riddles, and Mongolia's long history of puzzles.

Enormous statue of the Emperor of the Mongols.

Hidden treasures belonging to Mongolia's most revered and multi-talented monk spent decades buried in the Gobi desert.

One of the last surviving ancient Buddhist sites in the region, it escaped the brunt of several Hun invasions thanks to its remote location.

Mongolian Buddhists believe this monastery in the Gobi desert to be the center of the world's spiritual energy.

The oldest Buddhist monastery in Mongolia has survived centuries of invasions, political shifts, and religious purges.

Dinosaur eggs were first discovered at these fiery red cliffs.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

A tower marking the spot where Yugoslavia began its resistance against the invading Nazis stands neglected, but not quite forgotten.