Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.

The other side is actually green.

One of the most spectacular canyons in the world.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

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

Housed inside a replica church, its collection honors the Black community displaced by the Halifax government.

This massive work of art is five stories high and 120 feet long.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.

An imposing statue of the first prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda stands in the middle of a traffic intersection.

An imperial art museum offers edible versions of its most treasured displays in an on-site fine-dining restaurant.

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

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

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

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.

Legend tells how a Spanish soldier disappeared from this isolated sentry box without a trace.

This bleach-white graveyard overlooking the ocean is accessed through a tunnel.

A park where people have been going to feed friendly pigeons since the 18th century

The larger of two volcanic peaks rising out of the crystalline waters of the Caribbean.

Come for the springs; stay for the mud bath.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.