Ferdinand Magellan dubbed the world's largest water village the "Venice of the East."

A symbol of Islam in oil-rich Brunei.

Three wildly colorful calderas top this otherworldly volcano chain.

Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

Malaysia's floating mosque.

These rat eating Giant Malaysian Pitcher Plants may have evolved to eat shrew poop.

Self-mutilation in the name of beauty.

One of the largest caverns in the world has a maw large enough to stack cathedrals in.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

A mud brick kasbah with a history of lavishness and traitorship.

God's Saharan sandbox of wrath.

One of the most spectacular canyons in the world.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

This restored opera house is named after a soprano known for tragic romance, exile, and a truly uncomfortable wedding.

From Nunavut to Tierra del Fuego, you won't find any lighthouse higher than this one.

A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.

This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.

The stoutest tree in the world.

Hotel designed around a 16th century Mexican bullring.

This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."