Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.

This rusted shipwreck directly in front of a century-old abandoned lighthouse looks almost surreal.

The equator passes through this tiny island in the eastern Atlantic.

This nearly abandoned plantation was once witness to an eclipse that proved Einstein's theory of relativity.

Nature’s skyscraper launches out of the terrain with attitude.

This horseshoe-shaped waterfall is the second-largest on the African continent.

In 1962, the ocean severed this peninsula—and the village that sat on it—from the Angolan mainland.

This striking otherworldly landscape outside Angola's capital city is the product of millions of years of erosion.

The abandoned tanks along this highway are all that remain of a deadly conflict.

Did Gustav Eiffel design this enigmatic metal building?

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

This ship carrying cargo and four church bells for the Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida ran aground in 1968.

Rolling sand dunes of the Sahara... in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

A historic Masonic building overlooking the Puget Sound.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.