Monduli, Tanzania
Engaruka Ruins
The culture that built these Tanzanian ruins displayed advanced knowledge of irrigation technology before mysteriously disappearing.
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Monduli, Tanzania
The culture that built these Tanzanian ruins displayed advanced knowledge of irrigation technology before mysteriously disappearing.
Ngorongoro, Tanzania
These strange piles of magnetized volcanic ash travel across the desert about 50 feet per year.
Ngorongoro, Tanzania
Human ancestor’s 3.6 million year-old footprints.
Mombasa, Kenya
This colonial fort is an intriguing example of Renaissance military architecture.
Kilwa Masoko, Tanzania
Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.
Monduli, Tanzania
A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.
Victoria, Seychelles
One of the oldest restaurants in the Seychelles.
Moyenne Island, Seychelles
A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.
Seychelles
Over two-thirds of the world's population of giant tortoises live among this coral formation.
Liwonde, Malawi
A hollowed-out baobab that became the horrific final resting place of leprosy sufferers, with gruesome evidence to prove it.
Madagascar
This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.
Antsalova, Madagascar
Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife.
Marovoay, Madagascar
The runoff from these fiery cliffs sends red water flowing into the sea.
Mampikony, Madagascar
Giant disc-shaped gate took 20 men to close off this city in Madagascar.
Morondava, Madagascar
The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.
Malindi, Kenya
Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.
Nairobi, Kenya
Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.
Kenya
A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.
Marafa, Kenya
Strange sandstone canyon known as the "place broken by itself."
Kenya
Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”
Arsi, Ethiopia
Ethiopian standing stones featuring remarkably preserved carvings of swords and people.
East Tigray, Ethiopia
Reaching the "Church in the Sky" requires scaling the cliff face of a sandstone pinnacle with a 650-foot drop.
Aksum, Ethiopia
Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.
Aksum, Ethiopia
Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.