Ouidah, Benin
La Porte du Non-Retour (The Door of No Return)
A monument to the more than one million enslaved Africans deported from the port of Ouidah.
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Cotonou, Benin
Ganvie Lake Village
Africa's Venice on stilts.
Lome, Togo
Akodessewa Fetish Market
The Voodoo Superstore of the world.
Paris, France
Catacombes de Paris
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Permanently Closed
Charleroi, Belgium
Power Plant IM
The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.
Kathmandu, Nepal
Boudhanath Stupa
One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.
Kathmandu, Nepal
The Pashupatinath Temple
The oldest Hindu temple complex in Nepal serves as the seat of Nepal’s national deity, Lord Pashupatinath.
Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland
Kaplica Czaszek (Chapel of Skulls)
The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.
Halle, Belgium
The Blue Forest
Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.
