Places deriverative Wants to Go

A stark contrast between red sand dunes and the white sand beach immediately next to it can be seen along the southern Somali coast.

Amid the ruins of the 1990s Somali Civil War, life goes on as normal.

This lighthouse at the very tip of the Horn of Africa in the Puntland region of Somalia is a relic of Italian fascism.

Dine on roast goat inside a scrapped 1960s Soviet airplane.

A surprising number of shipwrecks visible just off the Somaliland coast.

This cave located in the badlands of Somaliland contains some of the oldest cave art in Africa.

A MiG-17 fighter jet sits atop this memorial to the indiscriminate bombardment of Hargeisa.

The world's largest bioluminescent area was undiscovered by science until 2005.

Home of the ruins of a British slave castle.

This river island in Sierra Leone is home to impressive biodiversity and the country's first community conservation program.

The first European-style university in western Sub-Saharan Africa.

A rehabilitation center for confiscated, orphaned, and abandoned chimpanzees.

One of the oldest brick structures in Freetown.

This national park is home to unique vegetation known as woodland savannah.

The oldest of its kind in the country, this tree sits where formerly enslaved people are said to have founded the city of Freetown.

On an idyllic island off the coast of Sierra Leone, remnants of the defense of the slave trade and its later abolition.

A curiously placed cannon along a roundabout in Freetown marks the boundary of the old city.

At the edge of a town market is the gravesite of a powerful female war chief.

Across the old bridge in Taiama is a monument to two Americans killed in a war against British imperialism.

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

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.

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.