Magnificent Roman ruins lie vulnerable to destruction on the edge of the Mediterranean.

Surrounded by a smudge of dark earth, this isolated volcano sits in stark contrast to the surrounding Sahara.

Landscape of bizarrely shaped desert mountains and innumerable rock carvings.

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

A deserted Bedouin village lines the shores of this stunning desert oasis.

A fortress-like granary that has been continually in use for more than nine centuries.

After several weeks of radio silence, this abandoned oil tanker washed up on a remote beach in Liberia.

After surviving decades of medical testing and civil wars, these chimpanzees were abandoned on their own islands.

This Liberian resort offers comfort, ecofriendly hospitality, and a mission of sustainability.

The walls of this sandstone outcropping are covered with 2,000-year-old artwork.

This sandstone plateau once served as a stronghold for Lesotho's King Moshoeshoe I and his subjects.

Take a step into the Cretaceous Period with these preserved dinosaur tracks.

An 18th-century hideout became a permanent and ongoing residence for one Lesotho tribe.

The memorial honors the lives of rhinoceroses killed by poachers.

Farm-to-table East African-European cuisine is on the menu here.

This tourist village in Nairobi celebrates the traditional lifestyles and customs of Kenyan tribes.

Strange sandstone canyon known as the "place broken by itself."

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.

Drink and dine in a coral cave that's at least 120,000 years old.

Located in Nairobi National Park, this animal orphanage is the oldest of its kind in Kenya.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

This small building is a living testament to the remoteness and warmth of the town that it represents.

Topless shrine of northern Ghana.