Places MeanderingMind Wants to Go

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

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.

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

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

In this African village, the walls of the chief's compound are painted with beautiful traditional designs.

Spanning over 10,000 square miles, this ancient salt pan is one of the largest on the planet.

An enchanting rocky island of scraggly baobabs surrounded by an ancient sea and sprawling salt pans.

There is only one place in the world where the corners of four nations come together.

Wondrous stalactites house thousands of bats in these African caves.

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

Africa's Venice on stilts.

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

Did Gustav Eiffel design this enigmatic metal building?

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

This massive monument towers over the city as a constant reminder of the lives lost during Algeria's hard-won war for independence.

A century-old stone hermitage overlooks this remote pass in the Hoggar mountains, surrounded by a landscape of eroded volcanic cores.

Classical ruins that remember ancient Rome's presence in Africa.

This dizzying span over the ancient Algerian city was once the highest suspension bridge in the world.

An extraordinary mix of Phoenician, Roman, early Christian, and Byzantine ruins beautifully set overlooking the Mediterranean.

The original resting place of Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony's only daughter.

The U.S. military dumped millions dollars worth of goods off a beach in Vanuatu, purely to spite the British and French.

Plains of ash and pair of semi-active volcanoes contribute to the otherworldly beauty of this little-known Vanuatu island.

The fully functional, submerged Vanuatu Post Office is definitely one of a kind.