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A memorial in the middle of a roundabout marks the spot where German forces formally surrendered, finally ending World War I in Africa.

The forgotten remains of the first steamship that launched on Lake Tanganyika.

Now abandoned, this stone church was part of the missionary efforts that initiated the Christianization of Zambia.

Combing through this David Livingstone tribute will escort you on adventures through the looking glass.

Africa's fourth longest river originates from a burbling spring in a secluded stretch of woods.

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

An obelisk marks the spot where a British explorer's heart was buried before the rest of his body was transported to England.

Zambia's smallest national park is home to one of the world's largest annual mammal migrations.

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

The abandoned tower is the last remnant of Lusaka's first major power plant.

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

A memorial marks the spot where a plane crash killed several United Nations members on a peace mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.

One man's artistic vision is a small town government's legal battle.

The oldest known European structures in Australia are the remnants of a story filled with mutiny, murder, jealousy and greed.

The ruins of a once prosperous power station have become a mouldering seaside gem.

The haunting remains of a beautiful old plant nursery founded in the 1850s.

Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.

Tropical paradise strewn with hundreds of World War II wrecks.

The ship that got left behind.

The ruins of a lighthouse on the island Amelia Earhart never reached.

An abandoned guano-mining city in the South Pacific.

This sacred enclave was once considered the religious center of Eastern Polynesia.

The watery grave of Captain Bligh's famous ship.