World's largest film studio, where visitors tour the decaying sets that litter the harsh desert environment.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

The other side is actually green.

Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.

One of the most spectacular canyons in the world.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

At more than 5,000 years old, these structures are among the oldest free-standing stone buildings in the world.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

This Stone Age solar temple aligns with the sun on each equinox and solstice.

This subterranean necropolis holds three floors of antler-dug grave caves.

The remains of a 1st-century aristocratic Roman town house featuring beautiful well-preserved mosaics.

142 ceramic steps become a mosaic once a year.

This spectacular dome managed to survive after being bombed in World War II, in an event known as the "Miracle of Mosta."

These temples are among the oldest free-standing stone buildings in the world.

Ancient artists in the middle of nowhere.

A rare cluster of alien-like plants grows along a dusty highway.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.