Places deriverative Wants to Go

An incredibly salty lake inside the crater of an extinct volcano.

The defense built to protect one of the last found pieces of land on Earth.

Once a bustling fishing village and trading post, today these Cape Verde ruins provide a home only for seabirds and turtles.

This ship carrying cargo and four church bells for the Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida ran aground in 1968.

Rolling sand dunes of the Sahara... in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

These mysterious 1,000-year-old walls have revealed little about their past.

In this African village, the walls of the chief's compound are painted with beautiful traditional designs.

This trio of bronze giants celebrate the influential trip to Britain that led to Botswana's independence.

The historic cave is both a symbol of superstition and black magic and inspired one of the early Christian converts in Botswana.

Local legend has it that the first humans were created in the pools here, leaving their footprints behind in the rock.

Spanning over 10,000 square miles, this ancient salt pan is one of the largest on the planet.

Wondrous stalactites house thousands of bats in these African caves.

There is only one place in the world where the corners of four nations come together.

An enchanting rocky island of scraggly baobabs surrounded by an ancient sea and sprawling salt pans.

The 100-foot-tall (30-meter) bronze statue was built to recognize the world's only documented all-female army.

A giant chameleon, with a fascinating purpose.

This subterranean town of over 50 dwellings lies thirty feet beneath the Earth's surface.

A monument to the more than one million enslaved Africans deported from the port of Ouidah.

Dozens of snakes are housed and worshipped within the walls of this Vodun temple.

Africa's Venice on stilts.

Africa's own Christ the Redeemer looks over Angola's second largest city.

Angola's “founding father” is buried under a giant concrete obelisk

In 1962, the ocean severed this peninsula—and the village that sat on it—from the Angolan mainland.

This horseshoe-shaped waterfall is the second-largest on the African continent.