Magical Mexico
This capital city was built on a lake by the Aztecs and is sinking several inches every year.
Mexico City
This mythical, blood-sucking count was inspired by Vlad the Impaler from the Transylvania region of modern-day Romania.
Dracula
With over 1.4 billion residents, this nation recently overtook China as the most populous country on Earth.
India
This massive desert dominates northern Africa and is roughly the same physical size as the entire United States.
The Sahara
This South American country is home to the world's largest carnival festival, featuring millions of people dancing the samba in Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil
Mexico is the birthplace of this beloved sweet treat, derived from the cacao bean, which the Maya and Aztecs consumed as a bitter, spicy drink.
Chocolate
These iconic wooden nesting dolls, brightly painted to resemble peasant women, originated in Russia in the late 19th century.
Matryoshka dolls
This ancient network of trade routes connected China to the Mediterranean, facilitating the exchange of spices, ideas, and its namesake fabric.
The Silk Road
Africa is home to this tallest land animal in the world, whose spotted pattern is as unique to each individual as a human fingerprint.
Giraffe
This massive rainforest produces roughly 20% of the world's oxygen and spans nine different South American nations.
The Amazon
This iconic Mexican peninsula, known for its resorts like Cancun, is also home to the massive Chicxulub crater that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Yucatan Peninsula
Poland is famous for producing "pierogi," which are best described as these savory or sweet stuffed culinary items.
Dumplings
Japan is an archipelago made up of nearly 7,000 islands, but the vast majority of its population lives on this largest main island.
Honshu
Surprising to many historians, there are over 200 of these steep-sided, ancient stone tombs in the African nation of Sudan—more than there are in Egypt.
Pyramids
This island country in the Caribbean is known as the "Land of Wood and Water" and gave the world reggae music and the fastest sprinters on Earth.
Jamaica
This vibrant Mexican holiday on November 1st and 2nd honors deceased loved ones with bright marigolds and decorated sugar skulls.
Day of the Dead (or Día de los Muertos)?
This Eastern European nation, nestled between Romania and Ukraine, boasts the world's largest underground wine cellar at Mileștii Mici, holding nearly 2 million bottles.
Moldova
This Southeast Asian nation is the only one in the region to have never been colonized by a European power.
Thailand
This island nation off the southeastern coast of Africa is home to unique wildlife found nowhere else on Earth, including lemurs and the fossa.
Madagascar
This long, narrow South American country is home to the Atacama Desert, a plateau considered one of the driest non-polar places on Earth.
Chile
The Mexican state of Jalisco is the only place in the world where this blue agave-based spirit can be authentically produced.
Tequila
Created in the 9th century, this writing system is used across much of Eastern Europe, including Russia, Bulgaria, and Serbia.
The Cyrillic Alphabet
Located in Cambodia, this massive stone complex is the largest religious structure in the world, originally built as a Hindu temple before transitioning to Buddhism.
Angkor Wat
This East African country has over 80 ethnic groups, was never successfully colonized, and retains its own unique calendar that is seven years behind the Gregorian one.
Ethiopia
Located deep in the Venezuelan jungle, this natural wonder is the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall, plunging over 3,200 feet from a tabletop mountain.
Angel Falls