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A small chapel is the oldest permanent building in a megacity of 18 million.

Across the old bridge in Taiama is a monument to two Americans killed in a war against British imperialism.

Tower in the center of town marks the midway point in the 10,000-kilometer Cape-to-Cairo journey.

At the edge of a town market is the gravesite of a powerful female war chief.

On a hill in Regent sits the oldest stone church in Sierra Leone.

A community heritage center on an overlooked island in the Sierra Leone River estuary.

This cemetery contains a small fraction of the hundreds of Sierra Leoneans who died in the world wars.

An Asante king spent four years in exile in a house on this very spot.

A curiously placed cannon along a roundabout in Freetown marks the boundary of the old city.

Tens of thousands of Africans rescued from slave ships passed through this gate before being settled in Sierra Leone.

On an idyllic island off the coast of Sierra Leone, remnants of the defense of the slave trade and its later abolition.

A seaside cemetery honors the Commonwealth soldiers and sailors that died in Sierra Leone during World War I and II.

A centuries-old house, once part of the wall of Granada, sports musket barrels from the battlements which allude to its original owner.

A museum dedicated to the centuries-old cave dwellings that housed marginalized communities on the outskirts of the former capital of Muslim Spain.

The propeller from the first steamship launched on Lake Tanganyika.

The "Key of Keys" for Washington, D.C. and the apocryphal landing place for the military campaign that started George Washington's career is now at the bottom of a well.

A hill outside of Kasempa is the location of a famous battle between the Kaonde and Lozi tribes.

This statue honors a pillar of the early New Haven Black community.

This stunning waterfall is the backdrop to a site that has seen continuous human habitation for 250,000 years.

It's not quite as old as its Roman appearance suggests, but this piece of infrastructure served Guatemala City for centuries.

A Zulu warrior is buried far from home, near the very northern border of Zambia.

The first Catholic Mission to the Bemba people of Zambia still stands.

Once a meeting point for Swahili slave traders, this ancient tree is now a monument to those killed by the slave trade.

This old brick building has held everyone from prisoners of war to freedom fighters during its turbulent history.