Places megankass Wants to Go

An ancient impact crater on the outskirts of Pretoria.

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

This road winds through the steep coastal cliffside offering spectacular views for those who brave the drive.

The original goat tower, the one that started it all.

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

Mined to a depth of 240 meters with a perimeter of about 1.6 km, the largest hand-dug excavation in the world.

These pillars are one of the few remnants from the mysterious lost empire of Makuria.

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.

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

Largest cave system in Africa.

These otherworldly caverns form Earth's oldest known cave system.

Local lore says a serpent-like beast lurks in the deep basin below the falls.

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

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

A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

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

Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.

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

One of the oldest brick structures in Freetown.

This national park is home to unique vegetation known as woodland savannah.

This river island in Sierra Leone is home to impressive biodiversity and the country's first community conservation program.

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

A British general, a suggestive tree, a map of paradise.

This vestige of Seychelles’s colonial past now resides in a busy intersection and didn’t chime for its first 96 years.