After suggesting criminals be burned to death on this rock, a king's advisor suffered his own punishment.

A hiking/biking/exploring trail that winds across over 140 miles of Rwandan shoreline.

This tiny, tranquil Senegalese island serves as a powerful symbol of the Atlantic slave trade.

An island made out of shells, including a cemetery.

A tree seems to grow from the ocean floor on this strange strip of sand slowly being overtaken by the sea.

This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

A British general, a suggestive tree, a map of paradise.

Over two-thirds of the world's population of giant tortoises live among this coral formation.

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

One of the oldest restaurants in the Seychelles.

The world's largest bioluminescent area was undiscovered by science until 2005.

Crumbling pyramids and temple ruins stand within the shadow of this sacred butte.

All that remains of Jacques Cousteau's 1960s underwater "village."

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.

A remote island settlement off the coast of Tanzania is a storied archaeological site with an ancient past.

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.

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

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

Stay in your own little bubble.

An abandoned film set location for a remote spaceport in a galaxy far, far away hides in the Tunisian desert.

A seemingly simple canyon that was the backdrop to a number of famous movies.

This museum in the famously blue neighborhood of Sidi Bou Saïd showcases a traditional Tunisian lifestyle.