This amateur-built East African church with mismatched towers is an architectural abnormality.

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

See hundreds of herons and egrets in the heart of the city in this dreamy hidden park.

Giant disc-shaped gate took 20 men to close off this city in Madagascar.

This underwater cave in Madagascar is home to what is thought to be the country's largest fossil graveyard.

Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife.

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

Early Islamic mosque with several strange conical domes.

Surrounded by a smudge of dark earth, this isolated volcano sits in stark contrast to the surrounding Sahara.

This triumphal arch is the only fully standing structure that remains from Roman-era Oea.

A deserted Bedouin village lines the shores of this stunning desert oasis.

Magnificent Roman ruins lie vulnerable to destruction on the edge of the Mediterranean.

A fortress-like granary that has been continually in use for more than nine centuries.

A beautiful oasis town dating back to the Roman period still serves as reprieve from the brutal summer sun in Libya.

Landscape of bizarrely shaped desert mountains and innumerable rock carvings.

This Liberian resort offers comfort, ecofriendly hospitality, and a mission of sustainability.

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

This tourist village in Nairobi celebrates the traditional lifestyles and customs of Kenyan tribes.

This colonial fort is an intriguing example of Renaissance military architecture.

Drink and dine in a coral cave that's at least 120,000 years old.

Kenyan restaurant is a carnivore's paradise, serving exotic meats at its ultimate 'Beast of a Feast.'

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

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