A time capsule from 1934 Rhodesia, showing the grace and disgrace of a bygone era.

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

Over the course of its history, this tiny island has held enslaved people in transit and served as a quarantine zone. Today, it's a giant tortoise sanctuary.

An enormous public square and parade ground built to celebrate Ghana's independence.

The clever workshop that has been designing some of the most unusual coffins imaginable.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

This wildlife trust is dedicated to orphaned elephant rescue and conservation.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

A strangely forgotten claimant to the much contested title of "Source of the Nile."

Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.

God's Saharan sandbox of wrath.

Thousands of narrow alleyways in an ancient medieval city make up what's believed to be the world's largest car-free urban zone.

Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

Along the most northwestern point in Africa is an ancient cave surrounded by legends.

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

An archaeological site believed to be the burial place of the "mother of us all."

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.