A mud brick kasbah with a history of lavishness and traitorship.

A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families

An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."

World's largest film studio, where visitors tour the decaying sets that litter the harsh desert environment.

One of the most spectacular canyons in the world.

God's Saharan sandbox of wrath.

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

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

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

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

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

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

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

The ancient heart of Tunis is an enormous maze of narrow streets and alleyways.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

The largest salt lake in the Sahara is mysteriously alluring.

Made famous by 'Star Wars,' these troglodyte homes face an uncertain future.

This Balinese sea temple is thought to be guarded by the hundreds of monkeys that live around it.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

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

Malaysia's floating mosque.

These jagged limestone blades cut out through the canopy of the jungles of Borneo.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.