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.

This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.

Morocco’s modern capital was once a haven for Barbary pirates, who went so far as to establish a republic of their own.

This former royal palace with gorgeous gardens became the first museum in Morocco.

The oldest known university in the world is in Fez, Morocco.

Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.