In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.

The Earth's saltiest natural body of water belches toxic gas.

The hottest place on the planet.

Uganda's smallest savannah park is home to over 350 species of birds and mammals.

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

Freddie Mercury's childhood home is now a monument to the iconic Queen rockstar.

After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.

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

A sobering account of the vibrant multicultural neighborhood that was destroyed under apartheid.

A 19th-century relic of timekeeping.

Held in a fort that once stood for colonization of the area, this museum now tells the history of its indigenous people.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

There is only one place in the world where the corners of four nations come together.

Two giant painted cooling towers make for one of the world’s most epic bungee jumps.

Nelson Mandela lived here with his family from 1946 until his arrest in 1962.

One of the tallest buildings in Africa provides a great view of Johannesburg's unique geography.

A beautiful viewpoint on the Garden Route overlooking a naturally-occurring outline of Africa.