When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

This bazaar is one of the oldest in the Arabian world.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

This artificial archipelago was supposed to resemble a map of the world.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

The largest falcon hospital in the world, caring for over 6,000 feathered patients every year.

This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.

On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

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

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

Slum Settlement Filled With Mountains of Garbage.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

One of the largest collections of socialist realist art shows the surprising depth of the official art of the Soviet Union.

The world's first museum dedicated to the work of game-changing naturalist Charles Darwin.

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

A harrowing trail up a mile-high mountain.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.