Nairobi, Kenya
Giraffe Centre
Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.
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Nairobi, Kenya
Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.
Nairobi, Kenya
Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.
Lalibela, Ethiopia
An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.
Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia
Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.
Aksum, Ethiopia
Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.
Afar Zone 1, Ethiopia
An ocean in the making, in the Ethiopian desert.
Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia
The hottest place on the planet.
Lalibela, Ethiopia
An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.
Paga, Ghana
The souls of the dead have made these Ghanese crocodiles shockingly docile.
Cape Coast, Ghana
Where thousands of slaves passed through the "Door of No Return."
Taihape, New Zealand
Taihape's claim to fame is a fictional Kiwi farmer wearing gumboots.
Dunedin, New Zealand
Three rooms of bones, curios, and one artist's collection of natural artifacts create this intriguing museum.
Muriwai, New Zealand
New Zealand's west coast is one of the best places in the world to view these large seabirds.
Wanaka, New Zealand
New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.
Oamaru, New Zealand
The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.
New Zealand
Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.
Dunedin, New Zealand
One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.
Rotorua, New Zealand
Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.
Slope Point, New Zealand
The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.
Makarau, New Zealand
A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.
San Francisco, California
The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.
San Francisco, California
A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.
Øygarden kommune, Norway
Ruins of two abandoned stations destroyed by the power they sought to harness.
Oslo, Norway
The Brutalist building harbors an unusual inverted dome that swoops down over its central sacred room.