Places James Gage Wants to Go

The largest prehistoric ruins south of the Sahara, once a powerful center of international trade.

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.

Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife.

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

A hollowed-out baobab that became the horrific final resting place of leprosy sufferers, with gruesome evidence to prove it.

Strange sandstone canyon known as the "place broken by itself."

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

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

This sacred, circular cave is lined with pools so clear and still that it's hard to tell where the water begins.

In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.

After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.

This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.

An exquisite and eclectic selection of African masks stands out within a massive woodcarving marketplace.

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

Once living up to its name as the grandest hotel in all of Africa, the Grande Hotel is now home to a community of squatters.

Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.

An abandoned water park overtaken by the dunes.

A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

A glass and sculpture wonderland forms an oasis in a remote part of Kenya.

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.

A secluded natural oasis hidden deep along a rainforest trail.

Now abandoned, this stone church was part of the missionary efforts that initiated the Christianization of Zambia.

This elaborate temple was built around one of the Buddha's teeth.

An ancient temple to the Hindu god Shiva surrounded by jaw-dropping scenery.