Places abbyekik Wants to Go

A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.

An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.

A Neolithic passage tomb said to have sheltered two legendary Irish lovers.

Local legend says the remains of Father Christmas lie within the medieval grounds.

This European portal tomb has a capstone that weighs around 150 tons.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

An 1814 castle that hosts an exhibit of "explorabilia".

The world's tallest box hedge is found in a delightful garden.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

These Honduran caves earned their magical nickname thanks to reflective bone deposits.

An ancient system of freshwater caves filled with animal bones, including that of species long-extinct.

A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.

A full-size replica of this well-preserved temple lets you take a walk through the Mayan age.

This staircase full of Mayan hieroglyphics is perhaps the largest single text in the world.

Fish raining from the sky are the cause of a yearly celebration in this small Honduran town.

Cave where bat-eating snakes hang down from the ceiling.

Hidden deep in the Guatemalan jungle is a turquoise paradise of natural pools, caves, and waterfalls.

This collection of historical artifacts and tropical wildlife waits just beneath the surface of the water.

One of the world's largest pyramids stands within El Mirador, the "lost city of the Maya."

The remnants of an archaeological camp stand within Tikal National Park.

A devastated ruin in the south of Belize where British explorers claimed to unearth the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull.

The world's largest ginkgo tree contains a hollow so large a man once lived in it for two years.