Places magratnj Wants to Go

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

The displays in this off-the-beaten-path museum highlight the holistic, indigenous methods of healing.

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

The home of Mahatma Gandhi during part of the 21 years he spent living in South Africa is now a guest house.

Fascinating collection of Khoisan rock engravings, still situated in their original setting.

Haven for Cape Fur Seals, until the Ring of Death of jumping Great White Sharks arrives.

Over a million items cram the shelves at Africa's largest shop of used and rare books.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

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

An ocean in the making, in the Ethiopian desert.

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.

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

This tourist village in Nairobi celebrates the traditional lifestyles and customs of Kenyan tribes.

Strolling through these vintage locomotives offers a surprising amount of insight into the history of Kenya.

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

The farmhouse owned by the Danish author who wrote "Out of Africa" is now a museum honoring her legacy.

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

Drink and dine in a coral cave that's at least 120,000 years old.

Located in Nairobi National Park, this animal orphanage is the oldest of its kind in 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.

Iceland's only steampunk shop imagines a retro-futuristic world that never was.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.