Billed as the "largest natural flower garden in the world" this Middle Eastern show field has little competition at 45 million flowers.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

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

This centuries-old tree tells an unusual tale of vegetation and fertility in the desert.

This picturesque round lake is said to be home to the legendary Mokèlé-mbèmbé.

One of the last refuges of the endangered eastern lowland gorilla.

The most biologically diverse protected area in Africa is also the most dangerous.

Home to pygmy hunter-gatherers, hundreds of animal and bird species, and the strange okapi, or forest giraffe.

The world's only facility where orphaned mountain gorillas are cared for.

Held in a fort that once stood for colonization of the area, this museum now tells the history of its indigenous people.

A rustic place to spend the night, complete with amazing quiver trees and outsider art.

Known as "The People's Park," this verdant oasis is home to elephants and villagers alike.

A rare cluster of alien-like plants grows along a dusty highway.

Tracks of ceratosaurus and Coelophysis rhodesiensis tracks can be found fossilized in the sandstone near Mt. Etjo.

A public display of prehistoric space rocks is named for the Namibian village where they were found.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

Ten shipwreck-shaped chalets lie along the sand dunes on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

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

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

A licentious look into Singapore's past, full of disorderly bric-a-brac and disreputable characters.

Colorful umbrella-covered trees in Singapore's Little India look straight out of Dr. Seuss.