All Places in Sierra Leone

This river island in Sierra Leone is home to impressive biodiversity and the country's first community conservation program.

A rehabilitation center for confiscated, orphaned, and abandoned chimpanzees.

Home of the ruins of a British slave castle.

The oldest of its kind in the country, this tree sits where formerly enslaved people are said to have founded the city of Freetown.

After Sierra Leone's railways shut down in 1974, a collection of engines and other artifacts spent decades hidden away in this old workshop—now a museum.

This national park is home to unique vegetation known as woodland savannah.

The first European-style university in western Sub-Saharan Africa.

One of the oldest brick structures in Freetown.

One of the most important Krio heritage sites in the country.

On an idyllic island off the coast of Sierra Leone, remnants of the defense of the slave trade and its later abolition.

A seaside cemetery honors the Commonwealth soldiers and sailors that died in Sierra Leone during World War I and II.

At the edge of a town market is the gravesite of a powerful female war chief.

Tens of thousands of Africans rescued from slave ships passed through this gate before being settled in Sierra Leone.

This cemetery contains a small fraction of the hundreds of Sierra Leoneans who died in the world wars.

An Asante king spent four years in exile in a house on this very spot.

A curiously placed cannon along a roundabout in Freetown marks the boundary of the old city.