Places Megan Johnson Wants to Go

Giant pigeon houses packed into city streets in Egypt.

The deadliest diving spot in the world is also a stunning geological marvel.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

An ocean in the making, in the Ethiopian desert.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

Strolling through these vintage locomotives offers a surprising amount of insight into the history of Kenya.

Strange sandstone canyon known as the "place broken by itself."

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

This amateur-built East African church with mismatched towers is an architectural abnormality.

These naturally balancing rocks were pictured on every Zimbabwean banknote, up to the 100 trillion-dollar note.

The largest prehistoric ruins south of the Sahara, once a powerful center of international trade.

It's estimated that half of the world's gold was mined from South Africa's "golden arc."

“The oddest pub in South Africa,” inspired by a practical joke.

The world's largest pineapple building honors Bathurst's favorite fruit.

The world's largest impact crater is mainly eroded but still remembers the planet's violent history.

Caves that can't seem to quit producing the remains of prehistoric humans.

A safari-themed castle in the South African bush with the largest maze in the southern hemisphere.

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