This center in the Rwandan capital supports women’s livelihoods while educating visitors about traditional cooking, craft making, and more.

One of the capital's last independent milk bars remains a crucial community watering hole.

After suggesting criminals be burned to death on this rock, a king's advisor suffered his own punishment.

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

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

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

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

In Stone Town, Zanzibar, the city’s culture and history is told through its doors.

Only reachable by boat, a small Tanzanian national park is home to the chimpanzees that Jane Goodall spent her career studying.

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

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

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

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

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

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

An Ethiopian cloud forest protects some of the last wild arabica plants.

Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.

The ruins of New Zealand's largest classical-style church.

These neon green and blue lakes are in the shadow of two huge volcanoes.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.