Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

A crumbling cathedral condemned by an earthquake.

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

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.

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

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

Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

The elliptical citadel resisted the advance of the mighty Ottomans several times, thanks to the military prowess of the "Dragon of Albania."

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

Known as the most dangerous bridge in the world, the Hussaini Hanging Bridge is only one of many precarious rope bridges in Northern Pakistan.

This dazzlingly turquoise mountain lake was created in the wake of a natural disaster.

Tibetan-influenced mountain fortress in Northern Pakistan.

A place as enchanting as the journey to reach it is harrowing.

Space-age minarets towering over Islamabad.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.