Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

Several ancient rock paintings can be found on the hills surrounding the Daramombe High School.

The largest prehistoric ruins south of the Sahara, once a powerful center of international trade.

The most biologically diverse protected area in Africa is also the most dangerous.

Home to pygmy hunter-gatherers, hundreds of animal and bird species, and the strange okapi, or forest giraffe.

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

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

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

According to one local legend, this image was created during a battle between a wild lioness and the archangel Michael.

Ethiopian standing stones featuring remarkably preserved carvings of swords and people.

The skeletal remains of the famous hominid "Lucy" were found at this spot.

This mysterious anthropomorphic statuette is on display at the National Museum of Oman.

The best-preserved beehive tombs in Oman with spectacular backdrop.

Groups of prehistoric tombs that dot the mountains of northern Oman.

Some claim these desert ruins are from the legendary "Atlantis of the Sands."

A phenomenon that appears to make gravity work in reverse has been attributed to jinn, supernatural spirits from Arabian folklore.

Lions carved into the rockface adorn these two tombs built into the mountains of Dadan.

This giant volcanic crater holds its very own field of salt.

An archaeological site believed to be the burial place of the "mother of us all."

Site where Moses may have received the Ten Commandments.

Within the Saudi Arabian desert lies a 2,000-year-old ghost town made of stone and mud.

More than 100 monumental tombs carved into rock are preserved at this ancient Nabataean site in the Arabian Desert.