A monument to the more than one million enslaved Africans deported from the port of Ouidah.

Africa's Venice on stilts.

The innovative Nigerian floating school that may just be a glimpse into the future of design in a world of troubling climate changes.

What started as makeshift fishermen's housing has grown into a massive, floating community.

Dozens of snakes are housed and worshipped within the walls of this Vodun temple.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

A secluded oasis of contemporary art and natural beauty.

These ruins disappear beneath the waves every winter.

This sea stack in Cyprus is traditionally seen as the birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite.

More than 20,000 salt and pepper shakers from across the globe call this museum home.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

The controversial final resting place of the equally controversial first president of Turkmenistan.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

A memorial to the thousands of Turkmen soldiers and civilians who died in a bloody 1881 battle.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

70 years of foreign military influence on the shores of Tripoli, Libya.

This triumphal arch is the only fully standing structure that remains from Roman-era Oea.

Magnificent Roman ruins lie vulnerable to destruction on the edge of the Mediterranean.

A fortress-like granary that has been continually in use for more than nine centuries.

A beautiful oasis town dating back to the Roman period still serves as reprieve from the brutal summer sun in Libya.