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

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.

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.

This tiny lake temple dedicated to a water goddess seems to float on the surface.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.

Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.

America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.

This airstrip atoll is uninhabited by humans, but absolutely full of birds.

The world's largest aggregation of great white sharks is at a mysterious spot in the middle of the ocean.

Island of trash twice the size of Texas floats in the Pacific.

Abandoned outpost once home to a murderous tyrant.

Made by river sediment, it is the largest alluvial fan in the world.

Natives of this mud-brick desert village use an ancient irrigation system to grow sweet, seedless grapes.

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

Dinosaur eggs were first discovered at these fiery red cliffs.

This Tibetan monastery has survived multiple attacks and is also a sky burial site.

A piece of India inside a piece of Bangladesh inside a piece of India inside a piece of Bangladesh.