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Nairobi, Kenya

Giraffe Manor

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.
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Kenya

Mara River Crossing

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

Kitengela Glass

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

Kitum Cave

A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.
Malindi, Kenya

Marafa Depression

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

Gedi Ruins

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

Dataran Lang (Eagle Square)

This statue of an eagle taking flight welcomes visitors to Langkawi.
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Langkawi, Malaysia

Kota Mahsuri

Local history holds that a young woman, killed for a crime she did not commit, cursed this island.
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Ronggur Nihuta, Indonesia

The Toba Caldera

Site of the largest volcanic eruption in the last 25 million years, one which may have nearly wiped out humanity altogether.
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Muzium Telekom (Telecom Museum)

Malaysia's first interactive museum.
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Gland, Switzerland

Villa Rose

This secret Swiss fortress is disguised as a harmless pink house, complete with fake windows.
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Georgia

Torrey-West House

This mansion on an island off the coast of Georgia once belonged to a 108-year-old heiress.
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Willemstad, Curaçao

Klein Curaçao

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.
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La Maddalena, Italy

Spiaggia Rosa (Pink Beach)

Crushed coral and crystals give the sand its signature coloration.
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East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

Padar Island

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

Lake Retba

This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.
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Kerch, Crimea

Koyashskoye Salt Lake

The saltiest lake in all of Crimea is also the pinkest of the pink and teeming with life.
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Australia

Lake Hillier

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.
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Torrevieja, Spain

The Pink Lake of Torrevieja

Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.
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Piton Sainte-Rose, Réunion

Notre Dame des Laves

At the foot of an active volcano sits a church miraculously spared by its lava.
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Tempe, Arizona

Eisendrath House

The historic “pink house on the hill” is an architectural gem that now serves as a center for water conservation.
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Newbury, Massachusetts

Plum Island Pink House

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.
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Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts

Martha's Vineyard Gingerbread Houses

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.
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Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France

Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild

A place to see how French aristocrats lived in the early 1900s.
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