It's estimated that half of the world's gold was mined from South Africa's "golden arc."

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

In this desolate valley resides a gorgeous set of rocks sporting a technicolor design.

The designated Jewish quarter in Fez dates back to the 15th century.

The true depths of these stunning Moroccan caves are unknown.

A few steps from the site of the Tlatelolco massacre, this museum tells the story of Mexico's 1968 student protests.

In Chapultepec Park there is a pavilion gifted to Mexico from South Korea to honor the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Its most enigmatic sculpture is a giantess with a ghostly face on her knee.

A close look at the church's walls reveals pieces of Mexico's history.

The turquoise-studded skull of a long-dead Aztec man sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology.

The ruins of an ancient temple to the Aztec wind god discovered in the middle of a metro station.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

This piece of a Renaissance-era Spanish castle remained lost for decades.

This industrial Art Nouveau gem is a historic hotspot for Mexican counterculture.

This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano.

An indigenous take on European design creates a stunning visual overload.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.