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

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

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

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

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

This triumphal 16th-century arched gateway leads to the oldest street in Palermo.

This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

A medieval wash house where people washed clothes in a river allegedly formed by the tears of a mourning nymph.

The world's highest and most dangerous infinity pool lies at the precipice of Victoria Falls.

Known as "The People's Park," this verdant oasis is home to elephants and villagers alike.

Ancient artists in the middle of nowhere.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

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

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

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

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

A large-scale steel sculpture entitled 'The Shadow Boxer' pays tribute to Nelson Mandela.

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

Over 60 species of birds inhabit this colorful aviary park in South Africa.

Despite many attempts to finish this overpass, it has been abandoned since the 1970s.