Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.

A desert that evokes the surreal.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

Deep in the Thar desert, a temple crawling with thousands of holy rats.

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

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

An ancient Ethiopian cave church is endangered by the simple building of a road.

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

Empty since 1989, now falling into ruin.

Home of the ruins of a British slave castle.