This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.

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.

Dakar is home to one of the oldest African art institutions in West Africa.

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

This beach in Senegal marks the westernmost point on the African continent.

Home to what was once considered the largest gate in central Asia.

Ancient barriers wrap around what was once an important stop along the Silk Road.

This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

A brilliant turquoise lake in the mountains.

A collection of old steam and diesel locomotives sitting in a fenced-off garden.

The seat of the lost Ryukyu Kingdom has survived numerous fires and wars over the centuries.

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

The former site of Fukuoka’s legendary ramen joint works hard to guide customers to the “original” original.

In the oldest zen temple stands a descendant of the very tree that introduced tea to Japanese culture.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

An eerie reminder to the horrors of World War II.