The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The museum within the Kom-Ombo Temple complex houses mummified crocodiles and mummified crocodile eggs.

The ancient village known as Set Maat, or the 'Place of Truth,' located on this site served as a hub for intellectual and artistic endeavors.

The city-sized home palace of one of ancient Egypt's most powerful rulers gives us a rare look into the lives of the epoch's rulers.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

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

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

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

In Stone Town, Zanzibar, the city’s culture and history is told through its doors.

Only reachable by boat, a small Tanzanian national park is home to the chimpanzees that Jane Goodall spent her career studying.

Over the course of its history, this tiny island has held enslaved people in transit and served as a quarantine zone. Today, it's a giant tortoise sanctuary.

This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.

This monument is a stark reminder of the horrors of the Zanzibar slave trade.

In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.

Human ancestor’s 3.6 million year-old footprints.

This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.

Freddie Mercury's childhood home is now a monument to the iconic Queen rockstar.

After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.

Spanish religion mixed with local architecture has yielded a network of churches unlike any other.

A display of hand-built replicas of the legendary vessels used by Patagonian and Antarctic explorers.

The geographical center of Chile is a port so depressing that it has driven men to suicide.

One of Chile's most active volcanoes is riddled with beautiful caves.

The island houses the ruins of a secret nuclear fusion lab that once employed high-profile Nazi scientists