Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

This fascinating cave is packed with prehistoric rock art and Stone Age tools.

Artifacts showcasing the witchy history of Zambia.

This monument is a stark reminder of the horrors of the Zanzibar slave trade.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

The final resting place of soldiers who fell during the First and Second World Wars.

This small roadside eatery exists in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, as the equator runs right through it.

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

Drink and dine in a coral cave that's at least 120,000 years old.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

This cave located in the badlands of Somaliland contains some of the oldest cave art in Africa.

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

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

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

Hidden dwellings in the cliffsides of North Togo used by local Moba tribes to evade 18th-century slave traders.

Where thousands of slaves passed through the "Door of No Return."

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

Home of the ruins of a British slave castle.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.

The most important and best preserved remnant of West Africa's powerful Songhai Empire.

This remarkably well-preserved mosque stands amid an 11th-century caravansary.

A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.

One of the two original gateways into the Kasbah, this gateway is a nesting site for storks.