The Cape of Good Hope is not quite as low as you can go on the African continent, but it's still geographically significant.

In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.

Freddie Mercury's childhood home is now a monument to the iconic Queen rockstar.

This monument is a stark reminder of the horrors of the Zanzibar slave trade.

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.

This wildlife trust is dedicated to orphaned elephant rescue and conservation.

This small roadside eatery exists in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, as the equator runs right through it.

The burial ground of four Buganda monarchs was nearly destroyed by a devastating fire.

A strangely forgotten claimant to the much contested title of "Source of the Nile."