Local lore says a serpent-like beast lurks in the deep basin below the falls.

Over a million items cram the shelves at Africa's largest shop of used and rare books.

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

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

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.

A surprising number of shipwrecks visible just off the Somaliland coast.

One of the oldest brick structures in Freetown.

This national park is home to unique vegetation known as woodland savannah.

This river island in Sierra Leone is home to impressive biodiversity and the country's first community conservation program.

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

A British general, a suggestive tree, a map of paradise.

This vestige of Seychelles’s colonial past now resides in a busy intersection and didn’t chime for its first 96 years.

A schooner, nicknamed "The Unsinkable," with a long history of survival in the Indian Ocean.

In the middle of a busy residential neighborhood, a small roofless church being reclaimed by nature.

One of the oldest restaurants in the Seychelles.

A 19th-century architectural masterpiece with ties to Gustave Eiffel.

This park was designated by UNESCO as an Endangered World Heritage site.

This unique religious structure is an architectural gem with arresting ocean views.

Dakar is home to one of the oldest African art institutions in West Africa.

An island made out of shells, including a cemetery.

A tree seems to grow from the ocean floor on this strange strip of sand slowly being overtaken by the sea.

Over 4,700 miles of trees being planted to hold back the desert.

This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.