This ship offers visitors the chance to spend the night aboard a former floating hospital for fishermen.

A shrine-like museum entirely dedicated to soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo.

An 11th-century medieval castle cascades over the town of Numão.

A small but charming botanical garden that contains many exotic plant species.

This giant sculpture made of trash is a critique of society's wastefulness.

A mecca for India's Jains.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

The largest prehistoric ruins south of the Sahara, once a powerful center of international trade.

The stunningly blue waters of these beautiful caves also have a violent past.

These naturally balancing rocks were pictured on every Zimbabwean banknote, up to the 100 trillion-dollar note.

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

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

Based on a real event, the statue is dedicated to those who fought and died for Zambia's independence.

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

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

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

A series of caves within the gorge hold artifacts from the Stone Age.

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

One of the largest concentrations of rock paintings in Southern Africa.