The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

An institution dedicated to curiosity, logic, riddles, and Mongolia's long history of puzzles.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

A canvas of crops grow from vibrant red soil in this terraced farmland.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

An abandoned Cambodian resort that mirrored the downfall of the country as it was happening.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

Hundreds of pieces of ancient Taíno art cover the walls of this Caribbean cave system.

Giant kites are flown during this Day of the Dead celebration in Guatemala.

One of the world’s most colorful cemeteries, where each pigment is symbolic.

An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.

Costa Rican accommodation resembles a crash site, but with a nice balcony.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

Spirits from these lakes are said to produce the local weather and odd phenomena as they bicker between themselves.

The true jewel of Africa's west coast known as "Africa's Last Eden."

One of the most spectacular canyons in the world.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.