The original movie set for the home of 'Star Wars' hero Luke Skywalker.

The largest and best-preserved Roman amphitheater in Africa was designed to seat 35,000 people.

The largest game reserve in Africa is home to thousands of species but refuses to house humans.

After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.

This monument is a stark reminder of the horrors of the Zanzibar slave trade.

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

These strange piles of magnetized volcanic ash travel across the desert about 50 feet per year.

Freddie Mercury's childhood home is now a monument to the iconic Queen rockstar.

Human ancestor’s 3.6 million year-old footprints.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.

This sacred, circular cave is lined with pools so clear and still that it's hard to tell where the water begins.

Stay in your own little bubble.

A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

Hidden dwellings in the cliffsides of North Togo used by local Moba tribes to evade 18th-century slave traders.

One of the most detailed and historically accurate collections of Ugandan artifacts depicting Bahima tribal history, culture, and daily life.

Uganda's smallest savannah park is home to over 350 species of birds and mammals.

The burial ground of four Buganda monarchs was nearly destroyed by a devastating fire.

Six rock shelters covered in abstract art created by ancient Ugandan tribes.

A strangely forgotten claimant to the much contested title of "Source of the Nile."

Where the White Nile River dramatically cascades between Lake Kyoga and Lake Albert in Uganda.

The home of half the world's population of critically endangered mountain gorillas.

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