Places stenaavel Wants to Go

The world's largest church atop a political fault line.

A comprehensive museum dedicated to Africa's oldest modern republic.

After several weeks of radio silence, this abandoned oil tanker washed up on a remote beach in Liberia.

An abandoned mine pit is now a beautiful, colorful attraction.

Empty since 1989, now falling into ruin.

One of the most important Krio heritage sites in the country.

The first European-style university in western Sub-Saharan Africa.

The oldest of its kind in the country, this tree sits where formerly enslaved people are said to have founded the city of Freetown.

After Sierra Leone's railways shut down in 1974, a collection of engines and other artifacts spent decades hidden away in this old workshop—now a museum.

Home of the ruins of a British slave castle.

This small building is a living testament to the remoteness and warmth of the town that it represents.

The old ceramics factory on Boa Vista shows the power drifting sand has to destroy buildings.

An incredibly salty lake inside the crater of an extinct volcano.

Once a bustling fishing village and trading post, today these Cape Verde ruins provide a home only for seabirds and turtles.

This ship carrying cargo and four church bells for the Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida ran aground in 1968.

Rolling sand dunes of the Sahara... in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

This monument memorializes a violent massacre where colonial police killed 50 striking dockworkers.

This beach in Senegal marks the westernmost point on the African continent.

This rusting artillery is a relic of Vichy France's influence in West Africa.

A 19th-century architectural masterpiece with ties to Gustave Eiffel.

This unique religious structure is an architectural gem with arresting ocean views.

A tree seems to grow from the ocean floor on this strange strip of sand slowly being overtaken by the sea.

An island made out of shells, including a cemetery.

Dakar is home to one of the oldest African art institutions in West Africa.