The original movie set for the home of 'Star Wars' hero Luke Skywalker.

Rusting railcars and locomotive equipment fill this Ethiopian train graveyard.

This fountain pays homage to Qatar's history of pearling, the primary industry before oil.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

A 19th-century fortress and collection of artifacts offer a tour of Saudi history.

Mount Nyiragongo has erupted at least 34 times since 1882 and is home to the world's largest lava lake.

This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.

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

In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.

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

Some claim these desert ruins are from the legendary "Atlantis of the Sands."

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

The final resting place of soldiers who fell during the First and Second World Wars.

Kenyan restaurant is a carnivore's paradise, serving exotic meats at its ultimate 'Beast of a Feast.'

The Earth's saltiest natural body of water belches toxic gas.

Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.

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

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

An ocean in the making, in the Ethiopian desert.

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

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

A salt lake dotted with steaming limestone chimneys.

A cablecar-station-turned-revolving restaurant with 360-degree views of the Swiss skyline.

Trek up this glacier before it disappears.