Places daveschaaf Wants to Go

The world's longest bridge fountain has hundreds of nozzles that create a beautiful, illuminated spectacle.

In Stone Town, Zanzibar, the city’s culture and history is told through its doors.

Only reachable by boat, a small Tanzanian national park is home to the chimpanzees that Jane Goodall spent her career studying.

Mosques carved from coral and dozens of well-preserved stone structures fill this 500-year-old Swahili trading center.

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.

This monument is a stark reminder of the horrors of the Zanzibar slave trade.

The largest game reserve in Africa is home to thousands of species but refuses to house humans.

This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.

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

Stay in your own little bubble.

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

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

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

A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.

Held in a fort that once stood for colonization of the area, this museum now tells the history of its indigenous people.

A public display of prehistoric space rocks is named for the Namibian village where they were found.

Tracks of ceratosaurus and Coelophysis rhodesiensis tracks can be found fossilized in the sandstone near Mt. Etjo.

Hitch a boat ride to dine on stilts while watching wildlife.

Known as "The People's Park," this verdant oasis is home to elephants and villagers alike.

A rare cluster of alien-like plants grows along a dusty highway.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

Ethiopian standing stones featuring remarkably preserved carvings of swords and people.