This stone tower was built in the late 19th century to signal the time to ships in the water.

The largest collection of Indigenous Australian artifacts in the world, and the rare museum where wood-and-glass cabinets have trumped interactive exhibits.

These bronze sculptures sow whimsy by hamming it up on a pedestrian mall.

Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.

Countless expeditions have left Tasmania to explore Antarctica, but this island state has an even deeper connection with the sea.

Three women and a 10-year-old boy are immortalized in this sculpture memorializing the 13,000 women and children convicts sent to Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) between 1803 and 1853.

Bronze statues honor the brave explorers who passed through this Antarctic gateway.

This simple sailing boat is one of the oldest preserved fishing vessels of its kind in the world.

The world's only full-size replica of the research hut used by Douglas Mawson for his 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition.

Located alongside the famous Salamanca Market and in sight of Parliament House, this large and elaborate monument is hard to miss, split into two sections and standing some 14 meters tall.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

Large, airy hallways hide within an impenetrable fortress that beckons urban explorers.

A 19th-century architectural masterpiece with ties to Gustave Eiffel.

A surprising number of shipwrecks visible just off the Somaliland coast.

The oldest building in Hargeisa survived the 1988 bombings that destroyed some 90 percent of the city.

A MiG-17 fighter jet sits atop this memorial to the indiscriminate bombardment of Hargeisa.

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

Ethiopian standing stones featuring remarkably preserved carvings of swords and people.

This roadside monument commemorates the huge weapon built by an Ethiopian emperor's hostages.

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

The world’s largest permanent desert lake is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The abandoned tower is the last remnant of Lusaka's first major power plant.

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

Freddie Mercury's childhood home is now a monument to the iconic Queen rockstar.