
In central Madagascar live the Merina people, who worship the dead in an unusual, and for most people - a barbaric and horrific, way. The ceremony is called Famadihana - the bones of the deceased are dug up and venerated.

In some of the more remote provinces of Cambodia, locals build specialized love huts. In them, teenage girls have sex with a different boy every night. The goal is for the girl to find a suitable partner with whom to spend her life. . .

A mysterious community, virtually undisturbed by the events of history in the rest of the world, continues to live on an island in the Indian Ocean, as it has for nearly 60 000 years.

In modern psychology there's a term called the map of reality. Experts use it to describe the uniqueness of the perceptions and understandings of the different people in different locations on Earth.

Authorities in Peru intend to make contact with the isolated Amazonian tribe Mashco-Piro, which calls the jungle home. Members of the tribe have been increasingly stepping beyond their traditional territories.

A mysterious people inhabits the Hunza Valley in the Karakoram mountain range in Pakistan. Besides living anywhere from 110-120 years, the people there never get sick from anything, making scientists marvel at the fact.

In the jungles of New Guinea, scientists have discovered amazing people who live simultaneously in two worlds, ours and the unknown parallel universe.