Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

The hottest place on the planet.

Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

This beautiful, all-in-one museum, private residence, and bed and breakfast houses a rich collection of African art.

The world’s largest permanent desert lake is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

This colonial fort is an intriguing example of Renaissance military architecture.

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

A glass and sculpture wonderland forms an oasis in a remote part of Kenya.

Strange sandstone canyon known as the "place broken by itself."

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

An aeronautical-themed resort forged around rusty relics from the golden age of air travel.

The beautifully designed resting place of Iran's national poet is a masterpiece of modern Persian architecture.

This mosque turned crypt is an amazing display of Persian-Islamic architecture.

This remote mountain shrine is one of the most sacred Zoroastrian temples remaining in the world.

One of the holiest Shi'i shrines in Iran honors the life and death of a learned noblewoman who became a saint.

This steamship has been beautifully rusting off the coast of an Iranian island since the 1960s.

A graveyard of old and rare planes that once were the glory of Persian aviation.

The cathedral stands in New Jufa, Isfahan's Armenian quarter that was established in 1606.

One of the world's largest shopping malls covers an area of 15 million square feet—and it's still set to grow.

Leaking natural gas never stops burning on this hill, making it an infinite inferno.

Iranian tombstones shaped like male and female sexual organs.

Colorful mineral deposits turn these mountains into an Impressionist fantasy.

This ancient fortress in Iran was once the oldest and largest treasury in the world.