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This local art collective supports contemporary artists through a coveted residency program.

Final resting place of one of Africa's most famous conservationists, murdered by bandits.

The world’s largest permanent desert lake is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Drink and dine in a coral cave that's at least 120,000 years old.

Kenyan restaurant is a carnivore's paradise, serving exotic meats at its ultimate 'Beast of a Feast.'

Strange sandstone canyon known as the "place broken by itself."

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

A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.

Located in Nairobi National Park, this animal orphanage is the oldest of its kind in Kenya.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

Standing atop 2nd-century Roman ruins, this church is one of the oldest and most iconic in Old Cairo.

A network of ancient Egyptian tombs built into the cliff face along the Nile.

Source for a sizable portion of Egypt's freshwater supply is more than an optical illusion.

It might not be the prettiest pyramid in Egypt, but it may be the muddiest.

A strange aquarium with stuffed fish, and almost no water for them to swim in.

The forgotten mummies of Dakhla oasis.

A preserved oasis with traditional Andalusian-style architecture and beautiful views of the Nile.

Charnel house at the foot of Mount Sinai.

Hundreds of thousands of ancient documents offer a unique glimpse into Jewish life in Cairo.

Ancient Egyptian relief, claimed to depict an electrical light.

The deadliest diving spot in the world is also a stunning geological marvel.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.