Algeria at $567 RT

Picture this: you're swimming in the cool blue Mediterranean, far from the standard tourist-crowded beaches. Feeling a little peckish, you return to dry land so you can enjoy a couscous picnic lunch surrounded by 2,500-year-old ruins.

Just another day in Algeria :-)

But, as nice as that sounds, you won't want to spend your whole trip on the coast. Not when all this gorgeous desert is right at your fingertips. Go ahead—hire a guide (preferably one who shreds), hop on that camel (or car or whatever), and poke around those stunning arches and oases.

And if you make it all the way to the country's southern edge, your reward is Africa's oldest art gallery.