Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.

Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.

World's largest film studio, where visitors tour the decaying sets that litter the harsh desert environment.

The oldest monument in Marrakesh and the city's only surviving example of Almoravid architecture.

The other side is actually green.

Deliberately hidden for centuries, the magnificent Saadian Tombs were eventually uncovered in 1917.

The largest madrasa in Morocco once housed more than 900 students within its exquisite walls.

One of the most spectacular canyons in the world.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

Giant aluminum tusks erected over the main thoroughfare to commemorate a visit by Queen Elizabeth II.

This urban park is home to monkeys and a number of endangered plants.

The world’s largest permanent desert lake is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Kenya’s oldest town is more than 700 years old and home to 6,000 donkeys.

This colonial fort is an intriguing example of Renaissance military architecture.

Kenyan restaurant is a carnivore's paradise, serving exotic meats at its ultimate 'Beast of a Feast.'

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

This nightlife venue and cultural center keeps a unique Ethiopian musical tradition alive in the nation’s capital, but breakneck urban development threatens to shut it down.

An ancient Ethiopian cave church is endangered by the simple building of a road.

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.