Deliberately hidden for centuries, the magnificent Saadian Tombs were eventually uncovered in 1917.

This vast masterpiece of Moroccan architecture spreads across 20 acres.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

A Moroccan getaway in the mountain range that plays the Himalayas' stunt double.

This local art collective supports contemporary artists through a coveted residency program.

This tourist village in Nairobi celebrates the traditional lifestyles and customs of Kenyan tribes.

The farmhouse owned by the Danish author who wrote "Out of Africa" is now a museum honoring her legacy.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

Strolling through these vintage locomotives offers a surprising amount of insight into the history of Kenya.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

Ha Long Bay's "Cave of Surprises" houses a popular phallic rock formation.