A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

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

Two giant painted cooling towers make for one of the world’s most epic bungee jumps.

This small monument marks the divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southernmost tip of Africa.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

Mined to a depth of 240 meters with a perimeter of about 1.6 km, the largest hand-dug excavation in the world.

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

Largest cave system in Africa.

Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.

Despite many attempts to finish this overpass, it has been abandoned since the 1970s.

This road winds through the steep coastal cliffside offering spectacular views for those who brave the drive.

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.

One of the tallest buildings in Africa provides a great view of Johannesburg's unique geography.

Home to some of the oldest hominid fossils ever found.

Enormous ants wielding giant pine needles guard a Stockholm real estate company's office.

This giant subway sculpture celebrates the fruit that inspired the theory of gravity.

A Swedish phone box converted into an informal village library.

A tiny town hall—in Sweden's one-time capital—might be the smallest in Europe.

Sweden's oldest street has not changed for nearly a millennium.

Archaeologists are still unraveling the secrets of the brutal massacre that wiped out this ancient fort.