After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.

Once a favorite playground for the world's most illustrious guests, Hotel Nacional's secret weapons and bunkers reveal a more menacing side to its golden history.

Uninhabited islet in the Caribbean is the sanctuary of giant lizards.

Time has stopped at the house where Gandhi died.

The painted and decorated towers of this Hindu shrine were once the tallest structures in one of the oldest cities in India.

This ancient Hindu temple is covered in thousands of colorful statues and has a long mythological history.

Temples adorned with intricate, erotic sculptures make up one of the "seven wonders" of India.

A single tree's 2,800 aerial roots give the appearance of a complete forest.

This otherworldly palace-mausoleum complex is the stuff eternal dreams are made of.

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Site of the largest volcanic eruption in the last 25 million years, one which may have nearly wiped out humanity altogether.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

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

Enormous statue of the Emperor of the Mongols.

The field of tiny caves that mark this Chinese cliffside are each their own historic Buddhist temple.

Enormous burial mounds of ancient emperors.

The latest in a series of long glass bridges suspended at terrifying heights.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

Extremely isolated Silk Road caravanserai in the middle of nowhere.