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Pyramid of Cestius.

Rome, Italy

Pyramid of Cestius

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

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Rome, Italy

Via Appia

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

Jesus' footprints in the basilica

Rome, Italy

The Catacombs of San Sebastian

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

View from the Temple of the Cross

Palenque, Mexico

Palenque

An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.

Monarchs in Michoacán

El Rosario, Mexico

Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

This sign is about all there is to the visitor's center

Kunene Region, Namibia

Twyfelfontein

Ancient artists in the middle of nowhere.

Namib Sand Sea

Namibia

Namib Sand Sea

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

Dead Vlei

Sossusvlei, Namibia

Dead Vlei

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

Welwitschia

Namibia

Welwitschia

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

Hoba Meteorite

Namibia

Hoba Meteorite

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

Niah Caves

Miri, Malaysia

Niah Caves

One of the largest caverns in the world has a maw large enough to stack cathedrals in.

Face-to-face with a skull.

Kuching, Malaysia

Sarawak Museum

The oldest museum in Borneo is a cornucopia of rare taxidermy and human skulls.

Cave where the remains of Homo floresiensis were found.

Boawae, Indonesia

Liang Bua Cave

A real-life "hobbit" cave in Flores, Indonesia.

Prehistoric hand prints in a cave in Maros.

Bantimurung, Indonesia

Prehistoric Cave Art of Maros Pangkep

These 40,000-year-old stenciled hands are older than the famous cave art in France and Spain.

Komodo Island

East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

Komodo National Park

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

Trunyan

Trunyan, Indonesia

Trunyan

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

Fingal's Cave

Isle of Staffa, Scotland

Fingal's Cave

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

Maitara Island and Tidore Island seen from Ternate.

Ternate, Indonesia

Ternate Island

The remote island home of the overlooked explorer who co-discovered the theory of evolution by natural selection.

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