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

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

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

These broken shards of ancient ruin may hide an ancient pyramid.

A haunting theme park is slowly being swallowed by the jungle.

This sacred cave temple is home to thousands of bats and according to legend, a giant snake king.

A crazy maze of a hostel, where every trap door and secret entrance brings you to a new wacky, wonderful room.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

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

Did Inca children also slide down these smooth rocky slopes above Cusco?

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

A 10 million-ton rock once worshiped by the Tahamies Indians, accessed by an astounding staircase.

The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

The remains of an ancient settlement in one of the oldest archeological sites in South America.

This small uninhabited island offers Galapagos-like biodiversity.

These mammoth-yet-narrow crevasses in the Earth are perfect for taking an otherworldly swim.

Ecuador's largest Incan ruins show evidence of sophisticated irrigation and diplomacy among the ancient builders.

The world's largest ecosystem of its kind is home to South America's only native species of bear.