This sculpture pays homage to sailors that perished attempting to round Cape Horn.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

This small roadside eatery exists in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, as the equator runs right through it.

The burial ground of four Buganda monarchs was nearly destroyed by a devastating fire.

The home of half the world's population of critically endangered mountain gorillas.

Kenyan restaurant is a carnivore's paradise, serving exotic meats at its ultimate 'Beast of a Feast.'

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

Go deep on these fascinating fish, and get a bonus lesson on the importance of marine conservation.

A dramatic coastline that’s home to a rare pine tree.

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

A one-stop shop for all things snowmobile, started by a snowmobile-obsessed group of friends in Wisconsin.

The world's longest known cave system.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

Cabins once lived in by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are featured at this Old West living history museum.

Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

Oldest building in California still in use.