Places alexisbeardg Wants to Go

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

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

What is left of the pillar of Saint Simeon, the voluntary martyr who climbed the column to give his sermons, remaining perched there for thirty-seven years.

This ancient mountain monastery welcomes all manner of faith in an effort to keep Christians in Syria.

Only a handful of these gorgeous historic waterwheels remain but even those are in danger from local unrest.

The Syrian headquarters of alleged hashish-smoking assassins.

A 1,500-year-old ghost settlement is slowly fading away.

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

Mysterious lost empire of the Silk Road.

Yemen's "Stone Palace" looks like it was carved right out of the tall stone column on which it is built.

One of the most remote and isolated villages on the Arabian Peninsula.

A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

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

Stay in your own little bubble.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.

A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.

Strange sandstone canyon known as the "place broken by itself."

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

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