Nairobi, Kenya
Giraffe Centre
Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.
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Nairobi, Kenya
Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.
Malindi, Kenya
Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Living inside a fearsome reptile in the Ivory Coast.
Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire
The world's largest church atop a political fault line.
Accra, Ghana
The clever workshop that has been designing some of the most unusual coffins imaginable.
West Gonja, Ghana
At Ghana's largest wildlife refuge you feel like you're right in the animals' backyard.
Cape Coast, Ghana
Where thousands of slaves passed through the "Door of No Return."
Paga, Ghana
The souls of the dead have made these Ghanese crocodiles shockingly docile.
Assin South, Ghana
This series of rope-style bridges brings visitors into a jungle layer that is usually reserved for birds and monkeys.
Mounana, Gabon
The world's first and only natural nuclear reactor.
Ndougou, Gabon
The true jewel of Africa's west coast known as "Africa's Last Eden."
Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
Rusting railcars and locomotive equipment fill this Ethiopian train graveyard.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
A powerful tribute to the victims who suffered under Ethiopia's most devastating regime.
Afar Zone 1, Ethiopia
An ocean in the making, in the Ethiopian desert.
Lalibela, Ethiopia
An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.
Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia
Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.
Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia
The hottest place on the planet.
Cairo, Egypt
A preserved oasis with traditional Andalusian-style architecture and beautiful views of the Nile.
Cairo, Egypt
A strange aquarium with stuffed fish, and almost no water for them to swim in.
Cairo, Egypt
A huge museum of much more than just agriculture displayed in a princess's palace.
Qesm Sharm Ash Sheikh, Egypt
An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.
Qesm Saint Katrin, Egypt
The deadliest diving spot in the world is also a stunning geological marvel.
Luxor, Egypt
These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.
Cairo, Egypt
In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.