The Hoggar Mountains of southeastern Algeria, home to Mount Tahat, the highest point in the country

Kalandula Falls, a set of cataracts on the Lucala River, a tributary of the Cuanza

The mouth of the Ouémé River at the Atlantic Ocean in Cotonou, Benin's largest city

The Okavango River winding through the village of Shakawe in northern Botswana

The Grand Mosque of Bobo-Dioulasso, one of the country's most famous works of Sudano-Sahelian architecture

A beach on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in the former capital of Bujambura

Pico do Fogo, the highest mountain in western Africa, is an active volcano, and a result of the volcanic hotspot that the Cape Verde Islands lie on

A waterfall on the Menchum River, a tributary of the Benue River near the border with Nigeria

A waterfall on the Mbali River near Boali, just northwest of the capital Bangui

Aloba Arch, the tallest natural bridge in Africa, gracing the Ennedi Plateau in the heart of northern Chad’s Sahara

A coastal town on the island of Anjouan, including its mosque

The Masisi Territory, a hilly region in the North Kivu province near Goma

Forest elephants in Mbeli Bai, a swampy forest clearing in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park

A bushbuck antelope in the savannas of Comoé National Park

Lake Assal, a waterlogged crater in the Afar Triangle whose elevation of -509 feet makes it the lowest point on the African continent

The landscape near Siwa, an oasis town by the Libyan border thought to have been settled in the 10th millenium BCE

Mountains overlooking Equatorial Guinea's modern capital of Malabo, on the island of Bioko

Lush, tropical highlands in the Eritrean countryside between the capital Asmara, and the port city of Massawa

Daybreak over Milwane Wildlife Sanctuary in Ezulwini, a region whose name is a SiSwati word for “heaven”

Colorful landscape created by volcanic activity at Dallol, an area of the Danakil Depression with the highest average temperatures in the world

Forest elephants in the savanna of Lopé National Park, the first protected area in Gabon

The landscape of Kiang West National Park, situated on the south bank of the Gambia River

A colorful landscape of sprawling settlements in Ghana's capital and largest city, Accra

The rolling grasslands of the Fouta Djallon, part of the Guinea Highlands

Savanna scenery near the Geba River, the most important river in Guinea-Bissau

A view of Lake Nakuru, an alkaline lake situated in the Rift Valley, from Baboon Cliff

A traveler treks through Sehlabathebe National Park, which forms Lesotho's half of the transfrontier Maloti-Drakensberg Park

A lake in Bomi County, located in western Liberia

The theater of Sabartha, a coastal Roman city in Tripolitania

Endemic Malagasy baobab trees clustered together by the Mozambique Channel

The peak of the Mulanje Massif, an inselberg near Blantyre that forms the highest point in Malawi

A Dogon village nestled within the sandstone cliffs of the Bandiagara Escarpment

The Richat Structure, a deeply eroded dome popuarly known as the "Eye of the Sahara"

This stunning landscape can be found in the Rivière Noire District in the western part of Mauritius

Chefchaouen, a city in the Rif Mountains near Tangier whose buildings are painted a distinctive shade of blue

Ghost Mountain, situated in the Lebombo Mountains in southern Mozambique

Sossusvlei, a salt and clay pan in the southern Namib Desert

West African giraffes grazing in the town of Kouré, just east of Niamey

A town overlooked by Zuma Rock, a monolith that towers 2379 feet (725 m) over the outskirts of Abuja

A lake and volcano in the Virunga Mountains, home to the critically endangered mountain gorilla

The Furnas blowhole on Ilhéu das Rolas, situated just south of São Tomé

The shoreline of Lake Retba, a lake near Dakar with a high concentration of the algal species resposible for its pink tint

The unique granitic rocks of the island of La Digue in the Seychelles contrast with the blue waters of the Indian Ocean.

Hippos swimming in Outamba-Kilimi National Park, situated near the border with Guinea

The semi-desert plains of northern Somalia

Flowers in the Cape Floristic Region, home to over 9,000 mostly endemic vascular plant species

The upper course of the Bahr el Ghazal River, a tributary of the White Nile

Steep pyramids in the ancient Nubian capital of Meroë

The Ngorongoro Crater, the world's largest inactive and intact volcanic caldera

A beach on the Gulf of Guinea in Lomé, the capital and largest city of Togo

Sidi Bou Said, a coastal town near Tunis known for its artistry and architecture

Unique plants and wildlife in Queen Elizabeth National Park, situated in the Albertine Rift near Lake Edward

The 300 foot tall cataracts of the Victoria Falls, shared with Zimbabwe on the Zambezi River

The 11th century Shona trading city of Great Zimbabwe, after which the country was named