Places wittc2 Wants to Go

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

One of the oldest restaurants in the Seychelles.

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

This abandoned plantation was once witness to an eclipse that proved Einstein's theory of relativity.

Nature’s skyscraper launches out of the terrain with attitude.

A crypt believed by many Congolese to be a center of black magic.

A labor of love and aviation in Nigeria.

The most remote tree in the world survived desertification, but not a drunk truck driver.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

Tracks of ceratosaurus and Coelophysis rhodesiensis tracks can be found fossilized in the sandstone near Mt. Etjo.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

From neon green watering holes to bleached elephant foetuses, this Mozambique museum makes natural history weird.

An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."

God's Saharan sandbox of wrath.

The true depths of these stunning Moroccan caves are unknown.

World's largest film studio, where visitors tour the decaying sets that litter the harsh desert environment.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

Only two of these trees remain in the natural world, found high in the cloud forest of the island of Mauritius.