A boat ride through utter darkness, lit only by headlamps, reveals an emerald green pool locals believe is sacred.

One of the largest and most scenic of Bangladesh's tea gardens.

This colorful palace is an oasis of calm amid the hustle and bustle of the Buriganga riverfront.

Step into a cartoon at this Seoul café that aims to evoke a two-dimensional scene.

This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.

A Singapore shrine to an unnamed German girl who has become a local deity.

A Buddhist theme park brings you a Buddhist version of Hell.

The largest pool at its elevation sits on top of one of the most expensive resorts in the world.

Singapore's landscaping project is home to 18 incredible Supertrees.

An abandoned Soviet-era mining town in the mountains of South Kazakhstan.

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

This magnificent blue mosque in Afghanistan is surrounded by thousands of white doves.

French scientists make up the majority of the few humans to occupy this remote island in the extreme southern Indian Ocean.

Scattered ruins and a tiny cemetery are all that remain of a failed attempt to colonize the inhospitable Desolate Islands.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

Russian Orthodox church built on an Antarctic island.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

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

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

The first mosque in Ghana is known as the "Mecca of West Africa."