Places butterflywings Wants to Go

The world's highest and most dangerous infinity pool lies at the precipice of Victoria Falls.

There is only one place in the world where the corners of four nations come together.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

This bullet spent 34 years lodged in the chest of Waruhiu Itote, a Mau Mau guerrilla fighter who resisted British colonial rule in the 1950s.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

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

A German “baron” built this castle for his wife, but their romance was short-lived.

The ruins of this mining boom town stand like skeletal reminders of the settlement's dark history.

Spanning over 10,000 square miles, this ancient salt pan is one of the largest on the planet.

Local legend has it that the first humans were created in the pools here, leaving their footprints behind in the rock.

An ancient impact crater on the outskirts of Pretoria.

Home to some of the oldest hominid fossils ever found.

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

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

This sandstone plateau once served as a stronghold for Lesotho's King Moshoeshoe I and his subjects.

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

This cave overlooking the Indian Ocean has been turned into a shelter and makeshift museum.

A cave that was home to humans 160 thousand years ago.

“The oddest pub in South Africa,” inspired by a practical joke.

A sobering account of the vibrant multicultural neighborhood that was destroyed under apartheid.

This surreal memorial/cemetery is a necropolis of crumbling stonework and puzzle-shaped headstones.

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Stone pillars and a petrified wedding party in the hills of North Macedonia.

A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.