After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.

A remote island settlement off the coast of Tanzania is a storied archaeological site with an ancient past.

This sacred, circular cave is lined with pools so clear and still that it's hard to tell where the water begins.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

Over two-thirds of the world's population of giant tortoises live among this coral formation.

Over the course of its history, this tiny island has held enslaved people in transit and served as a quarantine zone. Today, it's a giant tortoise sanctuary.

A British general, a suggestive tree, a map of paradise.

This vestige of Seychelles’s colonial past now resides in a busy intersection and didn’t chime for its first 96 years.

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

In the middle of a busy residential neighborhood, a small roofless church being reclaimed by nature.

The remains of a 19th-century school and living quarters are perched atop a mountain surrounded by a thick tropical forest.

A schooner, nicknamed "The Unsinkable," with a long history of survival in the Indian Ocean.

You can find more than 200 species of tropical plants at this garden owned by a former ambassador.