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The Southern Pole of Inaccessibility Station covered by snow. (Wikimedia Commons)

Antarctica

Southern Pole of Inaccessibility

Considered the most remote point in the entire world.

Blood Falls

Antarctica

Blood Falls

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

Modern view of the Cape Royds Hut.

Antarctica

Shackleton's Antarctic Hut

Nimrod Polar Expedition base, and home to hundred-year-old frozen whisky.

Vernadsky Station

Antarctica

The Bar at Vernadsky Research Base

One of the world's southernmost bars.

Base W

Antarctica

Base W

This abandoned Antarctic base sits nearly unchanged since it was forsaken in the 1950s, just waiting for you to visit.

A aerial view of the Masada fortress.

Masada, Israel

Masada

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.

Makhtesh Ramon

Ramat Negev Regional Council, Israel

Makhtesh Ramon

A massive, heart-shaped, wind-carved crater in the middle of the Israeli desert.

(Flickr/james_gordon_los_angeles)

Samarra, Iraq

Great Mosque of Samarra

9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.

Baghdad mosque houses Saddam's blood Quran.

Baghdad, Iraq

Saddam Hussein's Blood Quran

A 605-page Quran penned in the blood of a dictator is locked away in a mosque.

Al-Shaheed Monument

Baghdad, Iraq

Al-Shaheed Monument

A giant bisected onion dome remembers the Iraqis who died in the Iran-Iraq War.

Saddam Hussein's new construction on the ruins of Babylon.

Hillah, Iraq

Babylon

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.

The monastery overlooks the Shorong valley.

Lhasa, Tibet

Drigung Monastery

This Tibetan monastery has survived multiple attacks and is also a sky burial site.

The Timbuktu Manuscripts showing both mathematics and astronomy.

Timbuktu, Mali

Timbuktu Manuscripts

Ancient Manuscripts showcase the civilization of West Africans during the Middle Ages.

Bandiagara Escarpment Cliff Dwellings

Bandiagara, Mali

Bandiagara Escarpment Cliff Dwellings

These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.

Great Mosque

Djenne, Mali

Great Mud Mosque of Djenné

The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.

Mad Max 2 Museum

Silverton, Australia

Mad Max 2 Museum

This shrine to film's most iconic wasteland wanderer is located in the very outback where the movies were shot.

Oymyakon

Oymyakonsky District, Russia

Oymyakon

The villagers of the coldest inhabited place on Earth adjust to unique challenges presented by day-to-day living.

The Pillars viewed from a cruise ship

Khangalassky District, Russia

Lena Stone Pillars

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

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