Places aemem Wants to Go

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

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

This vestige of Seychelles’s colonial past now resides in a busy intersection and didn’t chime for its first 96 years.

A schooner, nicknamed "The Unsinkable," with a long history of survival in the Indian Ocean.

The remains of a 19th-century school and living quarters are perched atop a mountain surrounded by a thick tropical forest.

A British general, a suggestive tree, a map of paradise.

In the middle of a busy residential neighborhood, a small roofless church being reclaimed by nature.

Over two-thirds of the world's population of giant tortoises live among this coral formation.

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

This rusting artillery is a relic of Vichy France's influence in West Africa.

A 19th-century architectural masterpiece with ties to Gustave Eiffel.

This Dakar museum exhibits artworks and artifacts honoring the daily lives of Senegalese women.

This unique religious structure is an architectural gem with arresting ocean views.

This abandoned bunker looks out over the Atlantic from its clifftop perch.

This tiny, tranquil Senegalese island serves as a powerful symbol of the Atlantic slave trade.

This park was designated by UNESCO as an Endangered World Heritage site.

A tree seems to grow from the ocean floor on this strange strip of sand slowly being overtaken by the sea.

An island made out of shells, including a cemetery.

Dakar is home to one of the oldest African art institutions in West Africa.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

Over 4,700 miles of trees being planted to hold back the desert.

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.

This abandoned plantation was once witness to an eclipse that proved Einstein's theory of relativity.