Africa

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Moyenne Island

English newspaper editor buys abandoned island for £8,000, and transforms it into a tortoise nature preserve worth 34 million Euros that is now the smallest national park in the world

Many of us fantasize about what we would do with our own island. Brendon Grimshaw turned his fantasy into a wondrous reality - a flora and fauna preserve, primarily housing over 100 land... »

Anomalous Islands, Extraordinary Flora, Fascinating Fauna, Natural History | Edited by Rachel

New Town Tree Sculptures

Numerous impressive carvings are embedded in the trees lining this street in Marrakech

Michelangelo looked at a massive block of marble and saw the statue David. Edward Leedskalnin looked at South Florida's coral bedrock and saw a castle. Graffiti artists looked at the Berlin Wall... »

Extraordinary Flora, Unusual Monuments | Edited by serflac, Mark_Casey and others

Carnivore Restaurant

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

Hidden within a tropical garden and adorned with a loud, colorful décor, The Carnivore opens up into a vegetarian's fiery nightmare, or a meat eaters Shangri-la, depending on your culinary... »

Commercial Curiosities, Bizarre Restaurants and Bars | Edited by Rachel

Ghadames

A beautiful oasis town dating back to the Roman period still serves as reprieve from the brutal summer sun in Libya

A tad less than 300 miles away from Tripoli there exists an ancient getaway, an oasis made of mud, lime, and the trunks of palms. Covered alleyways and heat reflecting, creme-colored walls weave... »

Architectural Oddities, Incredible Ruins, Subterranean Sites | Edited by serflac, Rachel and others

Loango National Park

The true jewel of Africa's west coast known as "Africa's Last Eden"

Imagine this: Walking along a pristine, uninhabited, unspoiled beach, the only sound is the waves crashing upon the shore, when you hear another less familiar sound that catches you off guard. The... »

Natural Wonders, Watery Wonders, Fascinating Fauna | Edited by TrevorShawnElia, Rachel and others

Lake Abbe

A salt lake dotted with steaming limestone chimneys

Situated in the middle of the hot and hellish Afar Depression, Lake Abbe stretches six miles in width and is covered in clusters of massive, steam-blasting limestone chimneys. Although Lake... »

Natural Wonders, Martian Landscapes, Geological Oddities | Edited by serflac and atimian

Klerksdorp Spheres

Tiny pyrophyllite spheres from 3 billion years ago

By all scientific accounts, theses rounded objects found in pyrophyllite deposits around Ottosdal, South Africa are three billion-year-old rocks that were naturally formed by carbonate... »

Geological Oddities, Hoaxes and Pseudoscience | Edited by atimian and Dylan

Cairo's City of the Dead

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead

Just outside of Cairo, this City of the Dead used to house only corpses dating back to the 7th century. Created as an Arabic cemetery during the conquest of Egypt, the necropolis has developed... »

Memento Mori, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries, Eccentric Homes, Outsider Architecture | Edited by JBHewlett, serflac and 2 others

Ganvie Lake Village

Africa's Venice on stilts

In colonial Brazil, runaway slaves and free natives formed communities deep within the Amazon as a means of escaping the brutality of Portuguese slavery. A combination of dense vegetation,... »

Eccentric Homes | Edited by A Facebook user, atimian and others

Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park and Nature Reserve

Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife

The word tsingy is indigenous to the Malagasy language as a description of the badlands of Madagascar. The word can be translated into English as "where one cannot walk barefoot." The tsingys... »

Natural Wonders, Geological Oddities, Fascinating Fauna | Edited by Deryn, atimian and others

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