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

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.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

A hollowed-out baobab that became the horrific final resting place of leprosy sufferers, with gruesome evidence to prove it.

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

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

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

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

A secluded natural oasis hidden deep along a rainforest trail.

A memorial in the middle of a roundabout marks the spot where German forces formally surrendered, finally ending World War I in Africa.

Artifacts showcasing the witchy history of Zambia.

These naturally balancing rocks were pictured on every Zimbabwean banknote, up to the 100 trillion-dollar note.

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

A glass and sculpture wonderland forms an oasis in a remote part of Kenya.

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

The Kenyan town where the best distance runners in the world are trained.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.