This tiny, tranquil Senegalese island serves as a powerful symbol of the Atlantic slave trade.

This park was designated by UNESCO as an Endangered World Heritage site.

An island made out of shells, including a cemetery.

Dakar is home to one of the oldest African art institutions in West Africa.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

A 19th-century architectural masterpiece with ties to Gustave Eiffel.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

In this Borneo cave, it's not the thousands of bats you need to worry about, it's the blankets of roaches.

Malaysian fireflies create a dazzling display as thousands light up in unison.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

Myanmar's Mount Olympus atop a 2,500-foot volcanic plug.

A precariously perched golden rock defies gravity and brings pilgrims from across Myanmar.

This gem-encrusted temple is said to contain some of the Buddha's hair which can make the deaf hear and the blind see.

Gigantic unfinished stupa and the world's 2nd largest bell.

Over 2,000 ancient temples dot the Myanmar landscape at the site of this famed archaeological site.

A small statue of child Jesus given by Magellan in 1521

These tiered rice paddies were carved into the hillsides 2,000 years ago.

A once great mansion stands in stately ruin.

Bohol's mysterious brown hills.

A patch of Philippines forest devoted to saving the lives of an emotionally sensitive species of googly-eyed primates.

This statue once earned the distinction as one of the "Three Major Disappointments of the World."