The burial ground of four Buganda monarchs was nearly destroyed by a devastating fire.

Six rock shelters covered in abstract art created by ancient Ugandan tribes.

This museum in the famously blue neighborhood of Sidi Bou Saïd showcases a traditional Tunisian lifestyle.

The ancient heart of Tunis is an enormous maze of narrow streets and alleyways.

The best-preserved Roman small town in North Africa.

The largest and best-preserved Roman amphitheater in Africa was designed to seat 35,000 people.

Hidden dwellings in the cliffsides of North Togo used by local Moba tribes to evade 18th-century slave traders.

Mosques carved from coral and dozens of well-preserved stone structures fill this 500-year-old Swahili trading center.

The culture that built these Tanzanian ruins displayed advanced knowledge of irrigation technology before mysteriously disappearing.

These strange piles of magnetized volcanic ash travel across the desert about 50 feet per year.

Human ancestor’s 3.6 million year-old footprints.

Stay in your own little bubble.

This sacred, circular cave is lined with pools so clear and still that it's hard to tell where the water begins.

The largest game reserve in Africa is home to thousands of species but refuses to house humans.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.

The best-preserved example of a unique structure in Nubian architecture.

These pillars are one of the few remnants from the mysterious lost empire of Makuria.

Remains of an abandoned coral city.

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.

Every October, one of the largest migration of mammals in the world thunders through Boma National Park.

The inhabitants of the world’s largest wetland have learned to navigate its dramatic seasonal changes.

Jurassic Park in South Africa.