Landscape of bizarrely shaped desert mountains and innumerable rock carvings.

After surviving decades of medical testing and civil wars, these chimpanzees were abandoned on their own islands.

A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.

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

Strange sandstone canyon known as the "place broken by itself."

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

Located in Nairobi National Park, this animal orphanage is the oldest of its kind in Kenya.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

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.

This series of rope-style bridges brings visitors into a jungle layer that is usually reserved for birds and monkeys.

Where thousands of slaves passed through the "Door of No Return."

The true jewel of Africa's west coast known as "Africa's Last Eden."

The hottest place on the planet.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

A massive work of modern art that appears to be a crop circle in the middle of the desert.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

The "Versailles of the Jungle" built by a dictator is now a decaying shadow of its hubristic grandeur.

One of the last refuges of the endangered eastern lowland gorilla.

The most biologically diverse protected area in Africa is also the most dangerous.