A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

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

Over two-thirds of the world's population of giant tortoises live among this coral formation.

One of the capital's last independent milk bars remains a crucial community watering hole.

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

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

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

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

Along the most northwestern point in Africa is an ancient cave surrounded by legends.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

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

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

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

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

Located in Nairobi National Park, this animal orphanage is the oldest of its kind in Kenya.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

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.

The souls of the dead have made these Ghanese crocodiles shockingly docile.

Part shoe store, part sociopolitical art gallery, part zoo.

Known as the Sistine Chapel of Egypt, this tomb houses some of the most well-preserved paintings in Egypt.

Home to pygmy hunter-gatherers, hundreds of animal and bird species, and the strange okapi, or forest giraffe.

There is only one place in the world where the corners of four nations come together.

A monument to the more than one million enslaved Africans deported from the port of Ouidah.

Dozens of snakes are housed and worshipped within the walls of this Vodun temple.