Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

A labor of love and aviation in Nigeria.

Located in Nairobi National Park, this animal orphanage is the oldest of its kind in Kenya.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet your wish will be granted.

This former Imperial summer home was the venue for a royal slap that once echoed 'round the world.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

An ancient fortified mound raised over the millennia from settlements built one on top of the other.

Only a handful of these gorgeous historic waterwheels remain but even those are in danger from local unrest.

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."

Museum of Fijian history, including its former tradition of cannibalism.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

Think you have a tough job? Try carrying 200 kilos through a cloud of sulfur down the side of a volcano.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

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

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.

Singapore's landscaping project is home to 18 incredible Supertrees.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.