Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.

This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.

One of the tallest buildings in Africa provides a great view of Johannesburg's unique geography.

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

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.

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

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

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

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.

The hottest place on the planet.

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