This city park wants you to take your shoes off.

Outdoor escalators and art have helped change what was once a notoriously dangerous part of Medellín.

This small cave in the center of Isla Colon doubles as a sanctuary.

A pocket of jungle amidst urban expansion in Panama.

This church was transported brick by brick from the ruins of a 16th-century city into Panama City's current historic district.

The other side is actually green.

A strangely forgotten claimant to the much contested title of "Source of the Nile."

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

The final resting place of soldiers who fell during the First and Second World Wars.

The ruins of an early-18th-century complex that could once house up to 12,000 horses.

Rocky Atlantic beach home to a stunning stone arch.

Sleepy fishing port not included on many maps.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families

A Moroccan getaway in the mountain range that plays the Himalayas' stunt double.

Deliberately hidden for centuries, the magnificent Saadian Tombs were eventually uncovered in 1917.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

The largest madrasa in Morocco once housed more than 900 students within its exquisite walls.

The Cape of Good Hope is not quite as low as you can go on the African continent, but it's still geographically significant.

This prefabricated building was built in Belgium and shipped to Mozambique but was never inhabited, since its iron exterior was unsuitable for the tropical environment.

From neon green watering holes to bleached elephant foetuses, this Mozambique museum makes natural history weird.

This granite mountain is the largest rock in Africa and the second-largest monolith in the world.

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

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