All Places in Freetown

A rehabilitation center for confiscated, orphaned, and abandoned chimpanzees.

After Sierra Leone's railways shut down in 1974, a collection of engines and other artifacts spent decades hidden away in this old workshop—now a museum.

The oldest of its kind in the country, this tree sits where formerly enslaved people are said to have founded the city of Freetown.

The first European-style university in western Sub-Saharan Africa.

One of the oldest brick structures in Freetown.

One of the most important Krio heritage sites in the country.

A seaside cemetery honors the Commonwealth soldiers and sailors that died in Sierra Leone during World War I and II.

Tens of thousands of Africans rescued from slave ships passed through this gate before being settled in Sierra Leone.

A curiously placed cannon along a roundabout in Freetown marks the boundary of the old city.

An Asante king spent four years in exile in a house on this very spot.