Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

The remains of this 2nd-century Roman temple are incorporated into a modern building.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

A sobering account of the vibrant multicultural neighborhood that was destroyed under apartheid.

The first successful human heart transplant is depicted through wax figures at the hospital where it the surgery took place.

This road winds through the steep coastal cliffside offering spectacular views for those who brave the drive.

A memorial to the only dog ever officially enlisted in the Royal Navy.

The Cape of Good Hope is not quite as low as you can go on the African continent, but it's still geographically significant.

A pristine wildlife habitat against the backdrop of skyscrapers, nicknamed "The World’s Wildlife Capital"

This tourist village in Nairobi celebrates the traditional lifestyles and customs of Kenyan tribes.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

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.

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

Where the White Nile River dramatically cascades between Lake Kyoga and Lake Albert in Uganda.

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

A strangely forgotten claimant to the much contested title of "Source of the Nile."

Home to pygmy hunter-gatherers, hundreds of animal and bird species, and the strange okapi, or forest giraffe.

The burial ground of four Buganda monarchs was nearly destroyed by a devastating fire.

An aeronautical-themed resort forged around rusty relics from the golden age of air travel.

Only reachable by boat, a small Tanzanian national park is home to the chimpanzees that Jane Goodall spent her career studying.

For millennia, explorers were obsessed with discovering the source of the Nile—is this small mountain stream really the answer?

The most biologically diverse protected area in Africa is also the most dangerous.

The home of half the world's population of critically endangered mountain gorillas.

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