The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

This wildlife trust is dedicated to orphaned elephant rescue and conservation.

Strolling through these vintage locomotives offers a surprising amount of insight into the history of Kenya.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

The turquoise-studded skull of a long-dead Aztec man sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology.

These spectacular, symbolic serpents lie within the shadow of the Great Temple.

This strange sculpture of a menacing skull surrounded by sun rays was discovered at the foot of the Pyramid of the Sun.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The world's highest and most dangerous infinity pool lies at the precipice of Victoria Falls.

This monument is a stark reminder of the horrors of the Zanzibar slave trade.

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

These strange piles of magnetized volcanic ash travel across the desert about 50 feet per year.

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

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

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.