World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

A brilliant turquoise lake in the mountains.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

Tibetan-influenced mountain fortress in Northern Pakistan.

Space-age minarets towering over Islamabad.

A place as enchanting as the journey to reach it is harrowing.

This dazzlingly turquoise mountain lake was created in the wake of a natural disaster.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

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

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.

The ruins of this mining boom town stand like skeletal reminders of the settlement's dark history.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

An underwater city for the dead.

This Balinese sea temple is thought to be guarded by the hundreds of monkeys that live around it.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.