Places deriverative Wants to Go

The world's largest ship graveyard is the product of decades of corruption.

Every year, people come together to cover this mud-brick mosque with a fresh layer of earth.

One of Western Africa's oldest mosques, this Timbuktu icon has stood for nearly 700 years.

The most important and best preserved remnant of West Africa's powerful Songhai Empire.

These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.

The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.

A prodigious pachyderm lurks among Malawi’s inselbergs.

The ideal location for an immersive ecological experience.

A cultural center on the shores of Lake Malawi dedicated to preserving Karonga’s past and present, including the fossilized remains of the Malawisaurus.

This amateur-built East African church with mismatched towers is an architectural abnormality.

A hollowed-out baobab that became the horrific final resting place of leprosy sufferers, with gruesome evidence to prove it.

Giant disc-shaped gate took 20 men to close off this city in Madagascar.

See hundreds of herons and egrets in the heart of the city in this dreamy hidden park.

This underwater cave in Madagascar is home to what is thought to be the country's largest fossil graveyard.

The runoff from these fiery cliffs sends red water flowing into the sea.

Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.

Landscape of bizarrely shaped desert mountains and innumerable rock carvings.

A beautiful oasis town dating back to the Roman period still serves as reprieve from the brutal summer sun in Libya.

A fortress-like granary that has been continually in use for more than nine centuries.

Surrounded by a smudge of dark earth, this isolated volcano sits in stark contrast to the surrounding Sahara.

Magnificent Roman ruins lie vulnerable to destruction on the edge of the Mediterranean.

A deserted Bedouin village lines the shores of this stunning desert oasis.