The culture that built these Tanzanian ruins displayed advanced knowledge of irrigation technology before mysteriously disappearing.

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

This local art collective supports contemporary artists through a coveted residency program.

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

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

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

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.”

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

Zambia's smallest national park is home to one of the world's largest annual mammal migrations.

An obelisk marks the spot where a British explorer's heart was buried before the rest of his body was transported to England.

After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.

This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.

An exquisite and eclectic selection of African masks stands out within a massive woodcarving marketplace.

Tracks of ceratosaurus and Coelophysis rhodesiensis tracks can be found fossilized in the sandstone near Mt. Etjo.

A public display of prehistoric space rocks is named for the Namibian village where they were found.

Welded sphere dropped from space.

Held in a fort that once stood for colonization of the area, this museum now tells the history of its indigenous people.

This odd little home was built right into an African rock face.

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

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

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

The historic cave is both a symbol of superstition and black magic and inspired one of the early Christian converts in Botswana.

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