Places loganczar Wants to Go

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

Once a bustling fishing village and trading post, today these Cape Verde ruins provide a home only for seabirds and turtles.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

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

The abandoned tanks along this highway are all that remain of a deadly conflict.

A giant concrete Brutalist water tower in suburban Johannesburg.

This unassuming farm complex was once the epicenter of an underground liberation group.

A safari-themed castle in the South African bush with the largest maze in the southern hemisphere.

Held in a fort that once stood for colonization of the area, this museum now tells the history of its indigenous people.

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

A growing popular hipster market with over 100 local specialties and live music.

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

This trio of bronze giants celebrate the influential trip to Britain that led to Botswana's independence.

A mesmerizing sculpture marks the site where the activist was arrested after evading capture for 17 months.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

This deceptively beautiful island was once home to a German concentration camp and known as "Death Island."

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

The ruins of this mining boom town stand like skeletal reminders of the settlement's dark history.

This small monument marks the divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southernmost tip of Africa.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

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.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.