This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.

A stone memorial marks the spot where the fighting of World War I finally ceased—three days after the armistice was signed in Europe.

Arrogance and quarreling are forbidden near these three sacred waterfalls.

A secluded natural oasis hidden deep along a rainforest trail.

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

Dating back to 1812, this is the oldest racecourse in the Southern Hemisphere.

This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.

The “Thumb” of Mauritius provides a 360 degree view of the entire country.

Only two of these trees remain in the natural world, found high in the cloud forest of the island of Mauritius.

A British general, a suggestive tree, a map of paradise.

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

One of the oldest restaurants in the Seychelles.

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

A hollowed-out baobab that became the horrific final resting place of leprosy sufferers, with gruesome evidence to prove it.

Réunion Island's highest point is a two-million-year-old volcano and a paraglider's paradise.

At the center of an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean is a deep chasm ringed by tall waterfalls.

At the foot of an active volcano sits a church miraculously spared by its lava.

This monument sits at the foot of a mountain from which legend says enslaved people jumped to their deaths.