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

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

Dine on roast goat inside a scrapped 1960s Soviet airplane.

An extensive audio-only collection of cultural heritage saved from a genocide.

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 bright green structure is the final resting place of the 16th-century leader responsible for building the walls around Harar.

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

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

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

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

A powerful tribute to the victims who suffered under Ethiopia's most devastating regime.

In Stone Town, Zanzibar, the city’s culture and history is told through its doors.

Czechoslovakia’s first competition pool, now a decaying ruin of a functionalist marvel.

Striking, enormous gold-plated sculpture of Buddha installed in the 19th century.

One of the four clock faces on this church is mismatched, in a nod to a historic slight.

A dreamlike medieval church dug into the tuff rock, with unusual carvings and possible traces of the Templar knights.

The entire known universe of the ancient Etruscans is held inside this bronze model of a sheep’s liver.

A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.

Hidden masterpieces in a small church in the medieval city of Bergamo.

A stunning palace haunted by the sinister reputation of its infamous owners.

An underground passage is home to a guillotine that predates the French Revolution by more than two centuries.

Italy's curious field of mud volcanoes is named for being both gross AND salty.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.