Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

Mount Nyiragongo has erupted at least 34 times since 1882 and is home to the world's largest lava lake.

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

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

Home of the ruins of a British slave castle.

A little-known park with unusual, half-ruined structures and a mystical energy.

The Greek island's old British cemetery feels like a forgotten garden.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

The bright red cars take travelers through breathtaking Tuscan scenery.

An 11th-century mountaintop fortress that played a crucial role in Italy's papal wars is now a vacation rental.

The only substantial part of Nazi Germany's formidable defensive line through Northern Italy that survives today, largely intact.

The world's first underwater farm is home to more than 700 plants.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.

Ernest Hemingway was the first to sign this colorful wall covered in thousands of celebrity signatures.

An ancient rogue artist community hidden next to one of the world's most glitzy and glamorous cities.

The top of society once luxuriated in this world-class hotel, which continues to impress, even in ruin.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

Artist's eccentric property excessively decorated with found objects and work of his own.

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

A wood-and-steel sculpture garden featuring an artful interplay of nature and machinery.