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An Ethiopian cloud forest protects some of the last wild arabica plants.

Reaching the "Church in the Sky" requires scaling the cliff face of a sandstone pinnacle with a 650-foot drop.

Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

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

The Kenyan town where the best distance runners in the world are trained.

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

Kenya’s oldest town is more than 700 years old and home to 6,000 donkeys.

A glass and sculpture wonderland forms an oasis in a remote part of Kenya.

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

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

Strolling through these vintage locomotives offers a surprising amount of insight into the history of Kenya.

The farmhouse owned by the Danish author who wrote "Out of Africa" is now a museum honoring her legacy.

This tourist village in Nairobi celebrates the traditional lifestyles and customs of Kenyan tribes.

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.”

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

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

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.

The clever workshop that has been designing some of the most unusual coffins imaginable.