Places stenaavel Wants to Go

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

A small but beautiful waterfall hidden away in the north of Zambia.

The ruins of a massive World War I fort overlook the border between Zambia and Tanzania.

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

This stunning waterfall is the backdrop to a site that has seen continuous human habitation for 250,000 years.

Arrogance and quarreling are forbidden near these three sacred waterfalls.

The petrified remains of 150-million-year-old trees can be seen in and among the houses of the local villagers.

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

Artifacts showcasing the witchy history of Zambia.

A secluded natural oasis hidden deep along a rainforest trail.

The world's highest and most dangerous infinity pool lies at the precipice of Victoria Falls.

In 1962, the ocean severed this peninsula—and the village that sat on it—from the Angolan mainland.

This horseshoe-shaped waterfall is the second-largest on the African continent.

This striking otherworldly landscape outside Angola's capital city is the product of millions of years of erosion.

Did Gustav Eiffel design this enigmatic metal building?

The abandoned tanks along this highway are all that remain of a deadly conflict.

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

Remote, volcanic island that Darwin, Hooker, and the Royal Navy shaped into a thriving, artificial ecosystem.

Over the course of its history, this tiny island has held enslaved people in transit and served as a quarantine zone. Today, it's a giant tortoise sanctuary.

Mosques carved from coral and dozens of well-preserved stone structures fill this 500-year-old Swahili trading center.

The culture that built these Tanzanian ruins displayed advanced knowledge of irrigation technology before mysteriously disappearing.

This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.

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