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Socotra Island

Yemen

Socotra Island

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

Carnivore Restaurant

Nairobi, Kenya

Carnivore Restaurant

Kenyan restaurant is a carnivore's paradise, serving exotic meats at its ultimate 'Beast of a Feast.'

Obelisk of Axum

Aksum, Ethiopia

Obelisk of Axum

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

Dallol

Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia

Dallol

The hottest place on the planet.

Erta Ale by Night

Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia

Erta Ale

Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.

Yemrehanna Kristos Church

Ethiopia

Yemrehanna Kristos Church

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

Bete Giyorgis

Lalibela, Ethiopia

Bete Giyorgis of Lalibela

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

The Afar Rift

Afar Zone 1, Ethiopia

The Afar Rift

An ocean in the making, in the Ethiopian desert.

Lake Abbe

Djibouti

Lake Abbe

A salt lake dotted with steaming limestone chimneys.

Sydney Observatory

Millers Point, Australia

Sydney Observatory

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

Big Merino in Goulburn, Australia. (Wikimedia Commons)

Goulburn, Australia

Big Merino

Three-story concrete ram with a permanent gift shop.

Kiama Blowhole

Kiama, Australia

Kiama Blowhole

This massive water spout has been luring visitors for hundreds of years, some to their death.

Three Sisters

Katoomba, Australia

Three Sisters

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

Siriraj Medical Museum

Bangkok, Thailand

Siriraj Medical Museum

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

Giant Swing

Bangkok, Thailand

Giant Swing

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

Many of the phalluses are adorned with garlands of flowers and have coins scattered at their bases
Permanently Closed

Bangkok, Thailand

Goddess Tuptim Shrine

A forest of phallic offerings found in a quiet corner of a hotel car park.

Bangkok's Ghost Tower: The Sathorn Unique
Permanently Closed

Bangkok, Thailand

Bangkok's Ghost Tower: The Sathorn Unique

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

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