Kenya’s oldest town is more than 700 years old and home to 6,000 donkeys.

The farmhouse owned by the Danish author who wrote "Out of Africa" is now a museum honoring her legacy.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

This urban park is home to monkeys and a number of endangered plants.

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

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.”

After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.

Freddie Mercury's childhood home is now a monument to the iconic Queen rockstar.

In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.

This monument is a stark reminder of the horrors of the Zanzibar slave trade.

This sacred, circular cave is lined with pools so clear and still that it's hard to tell where the water begins.

These strange piles of magnetized volcanic ash travel across the desert about 50 feet per year.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This medieval castle was home to a known tyrant and features several hidden passages.

Destroyed numerous times, this centuries-old bridge has always been rebuilt with its original design.

On the Fourth of July this area will transform into a Pompeii-like storm of falling embers and ash.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.