Legends surround this natural rock formation that looks like a Moorish king wearing a crown.

Originally planted by the ancient Carthaginians, this sprawling palm grove is one of the largest in the world.

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

A celebration of solstice followed by a fiery purging of evils.

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

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

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

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

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

An ode to the friendship between four Pacific Rim countries.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

This magnificent market stands as a poignant symbol of the suffering caused by the Spanish Civil War.

Down this yellow brick road, visitors are treated to toadstool houses and massive mushroom sculptures.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

These spectacular, symbolic serpents lie within the shadow of the Great Temple.

This museum houses two of Mexico's most impressive Aztec monoliths.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

One of the oldest and largest Buddhist structures in the Americas, located in a peaceful forest outside Mexico City.