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

Ten shipwreck-shaped chalets lie along the sand dunes on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.

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.”

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

A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.

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.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

An ocean in the making, in the Ethiopian desert.

The hottest place on the planet.

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

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

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

Taihape's claim to fame is a fictional Kiwi farmer wearing gumboots.

Three rooms of bones, curios, and one artist's collection of natural artifacts create this intriguing museum.

New Zealand's west coast is one of the best places in the world to view these large seabirds.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.