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A sobering museum dedicated to landmines and the personnel working to remove them from Afghanistan.

Splashes of blue in an otherwise monotonous lunar landscape.

Highly unusual subterranean stupa and adjacent cave monastery.

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

This magnificent blue mosque in Afghanistan is surrounded by thousands of white doves.

An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.

An underwater road considered a possible Atlantis location.

The largest prehistoric ruins south of the Sahara, once a powerful center of international trade.

These naturally balancing rocks were pictured on every Zimbabwean banknote, up to the 100 trillion-dollar note.

The burial ground of four Buganda monarchs was nearly destroyed by a devastating fire.

A strangely forgotten claimant to the much contested title of "Source of the Nile."

An ancient burial ground believed to have been used for ritual sacrifice.

A seemingly simple canyon that was the backdrop to a number of famous movies.

Founded in 670, this ancient mosque is an architectural time portal.

This grand hydraulic installation has provided water for townspeople since the Middle Ages.

A 15th-century granary that played the role of futuristic slave quarters in the world of 'Star Wars.'

The best-preserved Roman small town in North Africa.

The original film set of Luke Skywalker's Tatooine home from the 'Star Wars' trilogy.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

The largest game reserve in Africa is home to thousands of species but refuses to house humans.

Human ancestor’s 3.6 million year-old footprints.

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

The culture that built these Tanzanian ruins displayed advanced knowledge of irrigation technology before mysteriously disappearing.

This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.