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Inside this museum is an ongoing excavation of an ancient shipwreck.

One of the only places where Earth’s mantle lies above water.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

Camels and crocodiles share the black waters of this stunning Saharan oasis.

This uninhabited volcanic island is the most remote in the world.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

Africa's Venice on stilts.

The last remaining site of Yoruba worship of the fertility goddess.

Land that belongs to no nation.

All that remains of Jacques Cousteau's 1960s underwater "village."

A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."

Nature’s skyscraper launches out of the terrain with attitude.

This abandoned plantation was once witness to an eclipse that proved Einstein's theory of relativity.

One of the most remote and isolated villages on the Arabian Peninsula.

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.

Yemen's "Stone Palace" looks like it was carved right out of the tall stone column on which it is built.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

The world's largest bioluminescent area was undiscovered by science until 2005.

The hottest place on the planet.

Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.

The “Thumb” of Mauritius provides a 360 degree view of the entire country.