This trio of bronze giants celebrate the influential trip to Britain that led to Botswana's independence.

A mesmerizing sculpture marks the site where the activist was arrested after evading capture for 17 months.

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

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

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

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

This small monument marks the divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southernmost tip of Africa.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

A sobering account of the vibrant multicultural neighborhood that was destroyed under apartheid.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

This statue commemorates the importance of hat manufacturing to Danbury, once known as the "Hat City of the World."

This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

One of the few brewers in the U.S. experimenting with hop-free beers.