Places patricklongmire Wants to Go

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

Early Islamic mosque with several strange conical domes.

A deserted Bedouin village lines the shores of this stunning desert oasis.

A fortress-like granary that has been continually in use for more than nine centuries.

Magnificent Roman ruins lie vulnerable to destruction on the edge of the Mediterranean.

A beautiful oasis town dating back to the Roman period still serves as reprieve from the brutal summer sun in Libya.

Landscape of bizarrely shaped desert mountains and innumerable rock carvings.

The world’s largest permanent desert lake is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

This colonial fort is an intriguing example of Renaissance military architecture.

Located in Nairobi National Park, this animal orphanage is the oldest of its kind in Kenya.

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

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

A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.

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

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

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

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

The first mosque in Ghana is known as the "Mecca of West Africa."

Where thousands of slaves passed through the "Door of No Return."

At Ghana's largest wildlife refuge you feel like you're right in the animals' backyard.

The souls of the dead have made these Ghanese crocodiles shockingly docile.

This series of rope-style bridges brings visitors into a jungle layer that is usually reserved for birds and monkeys.

The world's first and only natural nuclear reactor.