Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

Japan’s oldest clock tower has been called one of the country’s most disappointing attractions.

A statue of the forgotten American who helped transform Hokkaido and Japan.

Learn about the indigenous people of Japan's northernmost islands.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

Visitors can swim with vicious predators in Crocosaurus Cove's plastic daredevil enclosure.

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

In Stone Town, Zanzibar, the city’s culture and history is told through its doors.

This monument is a stark reminder of the horrors of the Zanzibar slave trade.

After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.

Freddie Mercury's childhood home is now a monument to the iconic Queen rockstar.

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

A powerful tribute to the victims who suffered under Ethiopia's most devastating regime.

An ocean in the making, in the Ethiopian desert.

A salt lake dotted with steaming limestone chimneys.

Rimmed by white crusts of salt on every edge, Lac Assal is one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world.

A MiG-17 fighter jet sits atop this memorial to the indiscriminate bombardment of Hargeisa.

This cave located in the badlands of Somaliland contains some of the oldest cave art in Africa.