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Bali's remote "gateway to heaven" is one of the most sacred places on the island.

This historic 17th-century site once served as a secluded meditation retreat.

These broken shards of ancient ruin may hide an ancient pyramid.

A palace-fortress ruin in Indonesia complete with legends of two magical tigers, eight bathing angels, and a wish-granting cannon.

At the edge of a town market is the gravesite of a powerful female war chief.

Tens of thousands of Africans rescued from slave ships passed through this gate before being settled in Sierra Leone.

This rusting artillery is a relic of Vichy France's influence in West Africa.

Location of the “Greatest 45 Minutes in Sports History.”

A museum dedicated to all things vinegar in rural South Dakota.

These once housed the families who decided in 1665 to quarantine themselves to save their neighbours.

The only place in the world where vehicles for an obsolete form of transportation are still built.

A school destroyed by fire and tsunami simultaneously is preserved as a memorial.

It might not be as impossible to reach as its name would imply, but just about.

Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.

Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.

Covering 13 acres and hosting 3,000 shops, this is one of Africa's biggest urban markets.

The remains of a magnificent medieval fortress that was the capital of a vast empire.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

The oldest monument in Marrakesh and the city's only surviving example of Almoravid architecture.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

This sanctuary is home to donkeys who finally get to rest after a life of toil.

The propeller from the first steamship launched on Lake Tanganyika.