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Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

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

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

This sacred, circular cave is lined with pools so clear and still that it's hard to tell where the water begins.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

This series of rope-style bridges brings visitors into a jungle layer that is usually reserved for birds and monkeys.

Where thousands of slaves passed through the "Door of No Return."

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

This Russian diner is staffed entirely by twins.

This cypress grove is a unique site considering these trees are not native to the region.

An abandoned mansion is now a haven for urban explorers.

Mostly underground in the old days Back in the USSR, today the Beatles beckon to tourists from a wall sculpture out in the open in central Russia.

These tiny cabins on a cableway have been carrying visitors at a Baltic resort down to the beach since 1912.

Thousands of biblical and pagan images are carved into this small 12th-century church.

A magnificent, Disneyesque chateau built for 150 lucky kindergarteners.

The laboratory where the Soviet secret police invented exotic poisons used to kill dissidents in hideous and (mostly) untraceable ways.

A former military outpost of Ivan the Terrible, the 16th-century church contains some of the rarest examples of Eastern Orthodox mural paintings.

An unusual abandoned church damaged in World War II sits in a small village outside Moscow.

An art museum inside an active factory.

Five mile wide circular ring of rock in the Russian Far East is a curious geological oddity.

A uniquely authentic display of traditional Russian culture.

This remote lake in Siberia supposedly contains a fearsome sea monster.