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This abandoned hospital facility is associated with regicidal conspiracies and paranormal activities.

North Africa's first museum of its kind preserves the culture of Moroccan women and their artistic achievements. 

Dive into an undersea optical illusion off the coast of Mauritius.

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

This moss-covered, rocky outcropping looks like a mythical beast resting in the water.

A hollowed-out baobab that became the horrific final resting place of leprosy sufferers, with gruesome evidence to prove it.

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

A vast and varied antique and vintage collection that borders on museum status.

On the grounds of a game lodge, a path decorated with the skulls of all kinds of animals.

This museum celebrates dogs through unusual stories from their owners.

The spot where the first living specimen of the coelacanth was discovered.

The first successful human heart transplant is depicted through wax figures at the hospital where it the surgery took place.

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

A supply store for traditional healers, this shop sells the hair of a dog--and its skin, skeleton, and reproductive organs, too.

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

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

An extensive audio-only collection of cultural heritage saved from a genocide.

Dine on roast goat inside a scrapped 1960s Soviet airplane.

Deadliest lake in the world suffocated over 1,746 people in one night.

Tens of thousands of Africans rescued from slave ships passed through this gate before being settled in Sierra Leone.

At the edge of a town market is the gravesite of a powerful female war chief.

This Dakar museum exhibits artworks and artifacts honoring the daily lives of Senegalese women.

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

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.