The oldest known university in the world is in Fez, Morocco.

Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.

Thousands of narrow alleyways in an ancient medieval city make up what's believed to be the world's largest car-free urban zone.

The other side is actually green.

Morocco's largest Jewish cemetery.

Dating back to 1812, this is the oldest racecourse in the Southern Hemisphere.

The “Thumb” of Mauritius provides a 360 degree view of the entire country.

This amateur-built East African church with mismatched towers is an architectural abnormality.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

Kenyan restaurant is a carnivore's paradise, serving exotic meats at its ultimate 'Beast of a Feast.'

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

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.

The clever workshop that has been designing some of the most unusual coffins imaginable.

Where thousands of slaves passed through the "Door of No Return."

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

Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

The city-sized home palace of one of ancient Egypt's most powerful rulers gives us a rare look into the lives of the epoch's rulers.

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

Hundreds of thousands of ancient documents offer a unique glimpse into Jewish life in Cairo.

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

This trio of bronze giants celebrate the influential trip to Britain that led to Botswana's independence.

Local legend has it that the first humans were created in the pools here, leaving their footprints behind in the rock.

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