Gadamis, Libya
Ghadames
A beautiful oasis town dating back to the Roman period still serves as reprieve from the brutal summer sun in Libya.
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Gadamis, Libya
A beautiful oasis town dating back to the Roman period still serves as reprieve from the brutal summer sun in Libya.
Ghat, Libya
Landscape of bizarrely shaped desert mountains and innumerable rock carvings.
Kenya
Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”
Nairobi, Kenya
Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.
Cape Coast, Ghana
Where thousands of slaves passed through the "Door of No Return."
West Gonja, Ghana
At Ghana's largest wildlife refuge you feel like you're right in the animals' backyard.
Assin South, Ghana
This series of rope-style bridges brings visitors into a jungle layer that is usually reserved for birds and monkeys.
Ndougou, Gabon
The true jewel of Africa's west coast known as "Africa's Last Eden."
Mounana, Gabon
The world's first and only natural nuclear reactor.
Aksum, Ethiopia
Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.
Afar Zone 1, Ethiopia
An ocean in the making, in the Ethiopian desert.
Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia
Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.
Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia
The hottest place on the planet.
Lalibela, Ethiopia
An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.
Qesm Siwah, Egypt
Source for a sizable portion of Egypt's freshwater supply is more than an optical illusion.
Al Lahoun, Egypt
It might not be the prettiest pyramid in Egypt, but it may be the muddiest.
Luxor, Egypt
These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.
Aswan, Egypt
The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.
Egypt
An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.
Badrshein, Egypt
This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.
Tanis, Egypt
The once great capital of Egypt now crumbles forward as evocative ruins.
Nubia, Egypt
Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.
Zawya Sultan Basha, Egypt
An endless sea of white conical domes.
Cairo, Egypt
An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.