A modern museum dedicated to the fairytales and dictionary work of the Brothers Grimm.

Hidden in a Scotland museum is a copse of extinct tree stumps.

A Paisley park where little has changed since its early 20th-century creation.

Just outside Lesotho's capital city, a rock formation takes the shape of a powerful predator.

The first European-style university in western Sub-Saharan Africa.

Hitch a boat ride to dine on stilts while watching wildlife.

In Namibia there is an installation that explores the intertwined linguistics and existential beliefs of an imaginary community.

Held in a fort that once stood for colonization of the area, this museum now tells the history of its indigenous people.

Ancient artists in the middle of nowhere.

A rustic place to spend the night, complete with amazing quiver trees and outsider art.

The ruins of this mining boom town stand like skeletal reminders of the settlement's dark history.

Known as "The People's Park," this verdant oasis is home to elephants and villagers alike.

This deceptively beautiful island was once home to a German concentration camp and known as "Death Island."

Welded sphere dropped from space.

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

A public display of prehistoric space rocks is named for the Namibian village where they were found.

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

A rare cluster of alien-like plants grows along a dusty highway.

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

Ten shipwreck-shaped chalets lie along the sand dunes on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

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

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

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