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The true jewel of Africa's west coast known as "Africa's Last Eden."

This sacred pool and its crocodiles have become popular tourist attraction where you can walk amongst the predators and even grab a selfie.

Built by Portuguese colonizers, the palace is now the seat of power for the independent nation.

Not only does this shop sell mokorotlo, the traditional hat of Lesotho, the building is shaped like one.

Take a step into the Cretaceous Period with these preserved dinosaur tracks.

An 18th-century hideout became a permanent and ongoing residence for one Lesotho tribe.

The school produces some of Africa's most talented acrobats and contortionists.

This small building is a living testament to the remoteness and warmth of the town that it represents.

The oldest building in Hargeisa survived the 1988 bombings that destroyed some 90 percent of the city.

Dine on roast goat inside a scrapped 1960s Soviet airplane.

The world's largest bioluminescent area was undiscovered by science until 2005.

One of the most important Krio heritage sites in the country.

After Sierra Leone's railways shut down in 1974, a collection of engines and other artifacts spent decades hidden away in this old workshop—now a museum.

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

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

One of the oldest restaurants in the Seychelles.

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

A grueling 699-step stairway to a heavenly view of the island of Saint Helena.

Napoleon’s home in exile, decorated with poisonous wallpaper.

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

A crypt believed by many Congolese to be a center of black magic.

All that remains of Jacques Cousteau's 1960s underwater "village."

Every October, one of the largest migration of mammals in the world thunders through Boma National Park.

The Voodoo Superstore of the world.