Places AlexOnAdventure Wants to Go

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

Nature's water park in the Wadi Bani Awf valley is full of pools flanked with cliffs and natural water slides.

This bazaar is one of the oldest in the Arabian world.

This spectacular mosque houses the second-largest chandelier in the world.

An imposing Omani fortress surrounded by date palm trees.

A sinkhole and now a swimming hole, too, full of dazzling turquoise water.

This mesmerizing, colorful structure looks like a tent made from stained glass.

These towering cliffs jut dramatically from the middle of a barren desert.

This giant volcanic crater holds its very own field of salt.

Within the Saudi Arabian desert lies a 2,000-year-old ghost town made of stone and mud.

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.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

Armenia's premier center of astrophysical research was established during the Soviet era.

The ruins of a medieval monastery built on a perilous slope.

After visiting hours, this picturesque waterfall is essentially turned "off" to be used for hydroelectric power.

This ancient monastery complex was transformed from an island to a peninsula when the lake was partially drained.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

A scenic canyon with thick forests and historic ruins.

A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.

One of the holiest Shi'i shrines in Iran honors the life and death of a learned noblewoman who became a saint.

This steamship has been beautifully rusting off the coast of an Iranian island since the 1960s.

This lake in northwest Iran has started turning from green to red more frequently than scientists are comfortable with.