Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

A strangely forgotten claimant to the much contested title of "Source of the Nile."

The home of half the world's population of critically endangered mountain gorillas.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

Known as the Sistine Chapel of Egypt, this tomb houses some of the most well-preserved paintings in Egypt.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

The best-preserved example of a unique structure in Nubian architecture.

Crumbling pyramids and temple ruins stand within the shadow of this sacred butte.

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.

A patchwork of ruins from various civilizations in one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities.

After this one-of-a-kind palace was built the architect's hands are said to have been cut off to keep it that way.

This modernist cinema has survived war and reconstruction to become a symbol of Lebanon’s revolutionary spirit.

This sacred enclave was once considered the religious center of Eastern Polynesia.

Site of James Cook's historic observations of the 1769 transit of Venus.

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

Atop one of Windhoek's most popular eateries is a monument to Namibia's most resilient vehicle.