An entire town in Haiti memorializes one man and his historic revolution.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

This seemingly random 30-foot statue of an oryx in Qatar's capital was a mascot for the 2006 Asian Games.

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

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.

Mount Nyiragongo has erupted at least 34 times since 1882 and is home to the world's largest lava lake.

A strangely forgotten claimant to the much contested title of "Source of the Nile."

Where thousands of slaves passed through the "Door of No Return."

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.

The most gigantic, swoony, intimidating trio of fingers in all of antiquity.

The world's oldest map of the holy land gives us a fragmented glimpse of the layout of biblical nations.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years old and harbors many surprises.

A monumental underground karstic wonderland is also the water source for over a million citizens of Beirut.