Known as the Sistine Chapel of Egypt, this tomb houses some of the most well-preserved paintings in Egypt.

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

A massive work of modern art that appears to be a crop circle in the middle of the desert.

One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

One of the last refuges of the endangered eastern lowland gorilla.

The "Versailles of the Jungle" built by a dictator is now a decaying shadow of its hubristic grandeur.

The most biologically diverse protected area in Africa is also the most dangerous.

The world's only facility where orphaned mountain gorillas are cared for.

Home to pygmy hunter-gatherers, hundreds of animal and bird species, and the strange okapi, or forest giraffe.

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

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.

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

Deadliest lake in the world suffocated over 1,746 people in one night.

These mysterious 1,000-year-old walls have revealed little about their past.

In this African village, the walls of the chief's compound are painted with beautiful traditional designs.