A tiny island home to a former English slave fort.

This unique religious structure is an architectural gem with arresting ocean views.

This tiny, tranquil Senegalese island serves as a powerful symbol of the Atlantic slave trade.

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.

An island made out of shells, including a cemetery.

The largest caravanserai in Cyprus also includes amazing examples of Ottoman architecture.

The site of a prison camp where Cypriot resistance fighters were held in the 1950s.

The eccentric midcentury home of a suspected mafia gun-runner.

The animals wander freely amid this gorgeous stretch of nature.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

The ruins of an early-18th-century complex that could once house up to 12,000 horses.

The world's largest concentrated solar power plant.

One of the two original gateways into the Kasbah, this gateway is a nesting site for storks.

Enjoy fresh-baked bread and fish from a repurposed Portuguese fortress.

Morocco’s modern capital was once a haven for Barbary pirates, who went so far as to establish a republic of their own.

Designed as a labyrinth, this subterranean prison was crafted without bars or doors.