Places iamangelsummers Wants to Go

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

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

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.

In the middle of a busy residential neighborhood, a small roofless church being reclaimed by nature.

Over two-thirds of the world's population of giant tortoises live among this coral formation.

One of the oldest restaurants in the Seychelles.

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

The equator passes through this tiny island in the eastern Atlantic.

This abandoned plantation was once witness to an eclipse that proved Einstein's theory of relativity.

Nature’s skyscraper launches out of the terrain with attitude.

The actual “Hotel Rwanda” that became a hiding place and refuge from the horrors of genocide in 1994.

This center in the Rwandan capital supports women’s livelihoods while educating visitors about traditional cooking, craft making, and more.

Burial site of the world's most widely known researcher on the endangered mountain gorilla.

This breathtaking island on Rwanda’s Lake Kivu is a haven for thousands of fruit bats.

A hiking/biking/exploring trail that winds across over 140 miles of Rwandan shoreline.

On one of the world's most active volcanoes, a pebble-filled crater changes color with the wind.

At the foot of an active volcano sits a church miraculously spared by its lava.

Réunion Island's highest point is a two-million-year-old volcano and a paraglider's paradise.

At the center of an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean is a deep chasm ringed by tall waterfalls.

Not your average art gallery, this massive center hosts 8,000 works from artists across Africa—and it’s free to the public.

This collection of Christian churches are nestled in the cracks of a rocky hill in Northern Nigeria.

More than 1,000 stone figures were discovered in a small Nigerian town, where they had been sitting for centuries.

Legend has it these caves were created by a deity called Ogba, who is said to live inside the winding subterranean caverns.