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Engineering ingenuity during the battle of Gibraltar.

A beautiful waterway tucked in the corner of a power plant.

For millennia, explorers were obsessed with discovering the source of the Nile—is this small mountain stream really the answer?

One of the most important Krio heritage sites in the country.

The first European-style university in western Sub-Saharan Africa.

This river island in Sierra Leone is home to impressive biodiversity and the country's first community conservation program.

The historic cave is both a symbol of superstition and black magic and inspired one of the early Christian converts in Botswana.

Spanning over 10,000 square miles, this ancient salt pan is one of the largest on the planet.

An enchanting rocky island of scraggly baobabs surrounded by an ancient sea and sprawling salt pans.

A vertical tube that allows you to see what's going on underneath the Antarctic sea ice.

The place of worship erected not once, but three times in one of the most desolate places on Earth.

These giant volcano sponges in Antarctica are thought to be the world's oldest living animal, at 15,000 years old.

Nimrod Polar Expedition base, and home to hundred-year-old frozen whisky.

These passages carved from the Antarctic ice hold strange shrines to the harsh southernmost climes.

Russian Orthodox church built on an Antarctic island.

A natural tidal swimming pool is ringed by bizarrely artistic lava rock formations.

The tallest mud-brick structure in the world has been standing since the 1500s.

Where hundreds of Japanese civilians committed suicide to avoid being captured by American soldiers during WWII.

This abandoned radar site is slowly being taken back by the jungle, its mission cut short by the end of the Cold War.

Underwater volcanic eruption forms new island off the coast of Tonga.

Nature’s skyscraper launches out of the terrain with attitude.

A mountain of conch shells created by centuries of fishermen.

This huge pile of volcanic boulders hides a stunning network of secret grottoes.

Just outside Lesotho's capital city, a rock formation takes the shape of a powerful predator.