Places KimKarishma Wants to Go

Dozens of snakes are housed and worshipped within the walls of this Vodun temple.

A monument to the more than one million enslaved Africans deported from the port of Ouidah.

Africa's Venice on stilts.

This monument sits at the foot of a mountain from which legend says enslaved people jumped to their deaths.

The “Thumb” of Mauritius provides a 360 degree view of the entire country.

This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.

You can find more than 200 species of tropical plants at this garden owned by a former ambassador.

This vestige of Seychelles’s colonial past now resides in a busy intersection and didn’t chime for its first 96 years.

A schooner, nicknamed "The Unsinkable," with a long history of survival in the Indian Ocean.

A British general, a suggestive tree, a map of paradise.

In the middle of a busy residential neighborhood, a small roofless church being reclaimed by nature.

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

Over two-thirds of the world's population of giant tortoises live among this coral formation.

One of the oldest restaurants in the Seychelles.

Also known as the Limete Tower, la Tour de l'Échangeur can be seen from almost everywhere in Kinshasa.

One of the last refuges of the endangered eastern lowland gorilla.

The "Versailles of the Jungle" built by a dictator is now a decaying shadow of its hubristic grandeur.

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

Mount Nyiragongo has erupted at least 34 times since 1882 and is home to the world's largest lava lake.

The world's only facility where orphaned mountain gorillas are cared for.

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

This sandstone plateau once served as a stronghold for Lesotho's King Moshoeshoe I and his subjects.

Just outside Lesotho's capital city, a rock formation takes the shape of a powerful predator.

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