Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

Experiencing Guatemala's sensory-exploding church is a blunt reminder of European influence.

Volcanically heated hot springs.

Central America's deepest lake is actually a volcanic caldera, surrounded by three volcanoes.

Hidden deep in the Guatemalan jungle is a turquoise paradise of natural pools, caves, and waterfalls.

This staircase full of Mayan hieroglyphics is perhaps the largest single text in the world.

Volcanic activity causes small pools of super-heated mud to boil furiously.

A pocket of jungle amidst urban expansion in Panama.

The inky volcanic sand leads to reefs teeming with aquatic life waiting to be discovered by snorkelers and divers.

Bali's remote "gateway to heaven" is one of the most sacred places on the island.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

Someone left a Boeing 737 in a field in southern Bali.

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

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Abandoned blockhouses from Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall erode into the sea on a French beach.

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

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

In this African village, the walls of the chief's compound are painted with beautiful traditional designs.

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.

At the center of an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean is a deep chasm ringed by tall waterfalls.