Yemen
Socotra Island
The most alien-looking place on Earth.
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Yemen
The most alien-looking place on Earth.
Nairobi, Kenya
Kenyan restaurant is a carnivore's paradise, serving exotic meats at its ultimate 'Beast of a Feast.'
Aksum, Ethiopia
Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.
Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia
The hottest place on the planet.
Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia
Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.
Ethiopia
An ancient Ethiopian cave church is endangered by the simple building of a road.
Lalibela, Ethiopia
An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.
Afar Zone 1, Ethiopia
An ocean in the making, in the Ethiopian desert.
Djibouti
A salt lake dotted with steaming limestone chimneys.
Millers Point, Australia
This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.
Goulburn, Australia
Three-story concrete ram with a permanent gift shop.
Kiama, Australia
This massive water spout has been luring visitors for hundreds of years, some to their death.
Katoomba, Australia
This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.
Bangkok, Thailand
A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.
Bangkok, Thailand
For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.
Bangkok, Thailand
A forest of phallic offerings found in a quiet corner of a hotel car park.
Bangkok, Thailand
On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.