Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

Largest cave system in Africa.

A growing popular hipster market with over 100 local specialties and live music.

This historic observatory was established to keep shipwrecks from littering the Cape of Good Hope.

Haven for Cape Fur Seals, until the Ring of Death of jumping Great White Sharks arrives.

Over a million items cram the shelves at Africa's largest shop of used and rare books.

Hidden in the hills is a mysterious stone structure, known only to a few.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.

Is this cat asleep or just pretending?

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

These sculptures were created by a 17th-century artist who had never seen an elephant.

The only Shinto shrine in Europe that has been officially sanctioned by Japan.

This roadside memorial pays homage to Argentina's Outlaw Saint.

A unique Shinto shrine filled with bunnies and wordplay.

More than 300 years old, Kyoto's historic "teahouse" still operates as an invitation-only geisha club.

The site where the famous city gate once stood, now in the middle of a playground.

The cemetery houses the remains of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, one of Japan's most famous novelists.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.