Beila, Mauritania
Camel Market
The largest camel market in West Africa
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Beila, Mauritania
The largest camel market in West Africa
Nouakchott, Mauritania
Thousands of colorful pirogues showcase ingenious craftsmanship at the largest fishermen port in Nouakchott.
Choum, Mauritania
Climb atop one of the world's longest and heaviest trains for an unbelievable journey across the Sahara Desert.
Ouadane, Mauritania
This remarkably well-preserved mosque stands amid an 11th-century caravansary.
Mauritania
A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.
Chinguetti, Mauritania
An architectural relic that survived the hands of time.
London, England
Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.
Monteverde, Costa Rica
In Costa Rica's cloud forest, the roots of a woody ficus create a botanical bridge.
La Fortuna, Costa Rica
The same water that fills a luxury resort’s pools feeds these free hot springs in the rainforest.
Copán Ruinas, Honduras
This staircase full of Mayan hieroglyphics is perhaps the largest single text in the world.
Antwerp, Belgium
Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.
Salento, Colombia
The world's tallest palm trees look like the whimsical kind of plant you'd find in a Dr. Seuss story.
Bogotá, Colombia
The world's first crowdfunded skyscraper has not gone quite to plan.
Bogotá, Colombia
This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.
Bogotá, Colombia
A celebration of Colombia’s premier contemporary artist.
Tirana, Albania
Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.
Tirana, Albania
What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?
Tirana, Albania
A museum dedicated to secret surveillance.
Tirana, Albania
In the heart of Tirana, this underground nuclear bunker has been transformed into a museum.
Tirana, Albania
An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.
Tirana, Albania
A memorial to the atrocities of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania.
Riga, Latvia
Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.
Riga, Latvia
3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.
Riga, Latvia
The statue of a legendary giant who carried Christ and shouldered the world's sins.