Climb atop one of the world's longest and heaviest trains for an unbelievable journey across the Sahara Desert.

This monument memorializes a violent massacre where colonial police killed 50 striking dockworkers.

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

The world's largest church atop a political fault line.

An enormous public square and parade ground built to celebrate Ghana's independence.

The 100-foot-tall (30-meter) bronze statue was built to recognize the world's only documented all-female army.

This Nigerian nature reserve is home to the longest canopy walkway in Africa.

The last remaining site of Yoruba worship of the fertility goddess.

It's been nearly a century since this volcano, the tallest mountain in Equatorial Guinea, erupted.

During the dry season, this white-sand beach hosts thousands of breeding butterflies.

The largest Christian church in the country is a complicated symbol of Spanish colonialism.

This village surrounded by breathtaking waterfalls is one of the wettest places on earth.

This striking otherworldly landscape outside Angola's capital city is the product of millions of years of erosion.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

This small monument marks the divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southernmost tip of Africa.

Brace yourself for the slowest, scariest, most spectacular drive, down the Drakensberg Escarpment.