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At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.

This roadside monument commemorates the huge weapon built by an Ethiopian emperor's hostages.

Rusting railcars and locomotive equipment fill this Ethiopian train graveyard.

These statues are dedicated to the damned souls of those executed centuries ago on the beautiful Yuigahama beach.

The birthplace of the Japanese idiom "wet clothes" meaning “false accusation."

This elaborate temple was built around one of the Buddha's teeth.

Part ski resort, part modern art space, this lodge brings giant metal spiders and bloody doors to the Austrian Alps.

A tribute to an iconic act of defiance from the Croatian War of Independence involving a small car.

This narrow fjord-like bay is the largest ria in the Mediterranean Sea.

A series of murals depict the evolution of plant life from the Precambrian to the modern day.

This ornate church has survived Nazi and Soviet occupation, including a short stint as a Soviet-era gymnasium and cinema.

A three-tiered waterfall plummets from a mountain cave with amazing views over the countryside.

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

A jungle cave in Peru of unknown depths, otherworldly sounds, and strange nocturnal birds that navigate by echolocation.

Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.

One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.

Concentrated around the Dead Sea, these surprising canyons are filled with coursing water, fish, and even crabs.

These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.

This terrifying glass bridge on the side of a mountain cracks as you step on it.

A tribute to the creator of the present day Hindu number system.

In the palace with a thousand doors, not all of them are guaranteed to lead you somewhere new.

An ancient art form is kept alive in this corner of Nepal.

An astounding collection of taxidermy, fossils, skeletons, and even a few strange live beasts.

The crumbling remains of a gold mine that was operational in the 1930s.