This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.

Nature’s skyscraper launches out of the terrain with attitude.

This picturesque round lake is said to be home to the legendary Mokèlé-mbèmbé.

The most remote tree in the world survived desertification, but not a drunk truck driver.

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

Welded sphere dropped from space.

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

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

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

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

The remains of a magnificent medieval fortress that was the capital of a vast empire.

The largest cactus farm in Africa.

An eerie former warehouse turned cistern turned movie set.

At this faithfully preserved medina off the Moroccan tourist circuit you can walk through six centuries of history in one day.

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

Vast stretch of tide-pools with a unique Moroccan charm.

From neon green watering holes to bleached elephant foetuses, this Mozambique museum makes natural history weird.

The true depths of these stunning Moroccan caves are unknown.

A mythical garden that once grew the golden apples of wisdom is said to have existed in this ancient Moroccan city.

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

Crumbling necropolis set high above Fez.

God's Saharan sandbox of wrath.