The oldest known university in the world is in Fez, Morocco.

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

Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.

Thousands of narrow alleyways in an ancient medieval city make up what's believed to be the world's largest car-free urban zone.

The other side is actually green.

The world's highest and most dangerous infinity pool lies at the precipice of Victoria Falls.

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

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

In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.

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

Crumbling pyramids and temple ruins stand within the shadow of this sacred butte.

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

An ancient Ethiopian cave church is endangered by the simple building of a road.

Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

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

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

Standing atop 2nd-century Roman ruins, this church is one of the oldest and most iconic in Old Cairo.

A network of ancient Egyptian tombs built into the cliff face along the Nile.

Source for a sizable portion of Egypt's freshwater supply is more than an optical illusion.

Ancient Egyptian relief, claimed to depict an electrical light.