Places amosner Wants to Go

The world's second-largest excavated hole.

Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.

This historic cemetery was inaccessible for several years due to dozens of land mines.

The world's oldest Jewish library was founded by Sephardic Jews in 17th century Amsterdam.

This former cathedral is now a bustling library packed with students and pigeons.

An eerie former warehouse turned cistern turned movie set.

This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

This "Jewish Sistine Chapel" was designed to reinvigorate Judaism's artistic legacy but was almost lost to misguided restoration.

Religious perseverance and cultural coexistence manifest in an architectural gem that multiple wars couldn't topple.

The remains of the oldest synagogue in Britain lay forgotten for seven centuries, hidden under a humble shop.

The second-largest Jewish temple in Bulgaria was deserted after World War II, seized by the communist government and then abandoned again.

The floor of the oldest surviving synagogue in the Americas is entirely covered in sand.

Dr. Farid Mattar's Monument of Peace.

A gallery of underwater art that can be visited by man and fish alike.

A beautiful opera house in the heart of Amazonia has recently restarted performances after a 90-year hiatus.

An abandoned colonial French prison notorious for its hellish conditions.

The world's widest single drop waterfall, and the two men who legend says went over its edge in a boat.

This "floating island" plateau sits 7,671 feet above the forest floor.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

This attraction is part anthropological journey and part amusement park.

The remote island home of the overlooked explorer who co-discovered the theory of evolution by natural selection.

This gem-encrusted temple is said to contain some of the Buddha's hair which can make the deaf hear and the blind see.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.