This monument sits at the foot of a mountain from which legend says enslaved people jumped to their deaths.

At the foot of an active volcano sits a church miraculously spared by its lava.

A comprehensive museum dedicated to Africa's oldest modern republic.

One of Western Africa's oldest mosques, this Timbuktu icon has stood for nearly 700 years.

The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.

The world's largest church atop a political fault line.

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

An enormous public square and parade ground built to celebrate Ghana's independence.

This grounded passenger jet is now a restaurant, complete with rows of seats and “flight attendant” servers.

A tiny island home to a former English slave fort.

This unusual hostel provides a glimpse of life in a city under siege.

The first mosque in the world to receive electricity.

This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.

This top-secret nuclear bunker hidden in a Bosnian mountain has been converted to a modern art exhibition space.

Icelandic settlement in Manitoba established in 1875.

A celebration of one of the West End’s most recognizable figures, who made helping others his life's work.

The world’s first museum dedicated to exploring human rights unleashed a wave of controversy.

Decorated by local artists, the city's utility boxes have become three-dimensional canvases.

This former Cyprus flight hub is now a crumbling, abandoned ghost complex.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

One of the oldest and largest castles in the world.

Mysterious lost empire of the Silk Road.

A Stalinist prison camp for the wives and children of men accused of betraying the Soviet state is now a memorial museum.