Is this 200-meter-wide nature reserve the smallest desert in the world?

The loneliest plant in the world resides at the Durban Botanic Gardens...mostly.

Tiny pyrophyllite spheres from 3 billion years ago.

All that remains of a Japanese fishing vessel that ran aground in 1982.

Fascinating collection of Khoisan rock engravings, still situated in their original setting.

The world's largest impact crater is mainly eroded but still remembers the planet's violent history.

A mesmerizing sculpture marks the site where the activist was arrested after evading capture for 17 months.

An ancient impact crater on the outskirts of Pretoria.

Home to some of the oldest hominid fossils ever found.

Caves that can't seem to quit producing the remains of prehistoric humans.

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

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

This historic observatory was established to keep shipwrecks from littering the Cape of Good Hope.

These otherworldly caverns form Earth's oldest known cave system.

Haven for Cape Fur Seals, until the Ring of Death of jumping Great White Sharks arrives.

Hidden in the hills is a mysterious stone structure, known only to a few.

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

This cave located in the badlands of Somaliland contains some of the oldest cave art in Africa.

The world's largest bioluminescent area was undiscovered by science until 2005.

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

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

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

The remains of a 19th-century school and living quarters are perched atop a mountain surrounded by a thick tropical forest.

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