Places deriverative Wants to Go

On a desolate hill overlooking McMurdo Station, a statue of the Virgin Mary stands inside a curved iron frame.

The steep slope known as “Ob Hill” overlooks an Antarctic research station.

A garden in the middle of the most inhospitable continent.

An enormous mural of a leaping orca painted on a fuel tank at a remote Antarctic base.

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

Sculpture park built by a 50-year-old widow.

Fascinating collection of Khoisan rock engravings, still situated in their original setting.

The original goat tower, the one that started it all.

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

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

The world's largest impact crater is mainly eroded but still remembers the planet's violent history.

The loneliest plant in the world resides at the Durban Botanic Gardens...mostly.

Taxidermy of a famous hippo who spent three years walking over a thousand miles across South Africa.

Largest cave system in Africa.

An odd little fishing town that is inundated by tourists looking to be locked up in a cage and surrounded by great white sharks, because why not?

An abandoned water park overtaken by the dunes.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

Home to some of the oldest hominid fossils ever found.

One of the tallest buildings in Africa provides a great view of Johannesburg's unique geography.

Caves that can't seem to quit producing the remains of prehistoric humans.

Mined to a depth of 240 meters with a perimeter of about 1.6 km, the largest hand-dug excavation in the world.

Haven for Cape Fur Seals, until the Ring of Death of jumping Great White Sharks arrives.

Environmentally crucial raptors like eagles and vultures are kept and protected in this massive sanctuary.

This historic observatory was established to keep shipwrecks from littering the Cape of Good Hope.