Places andyhartsmith Wants to Go

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

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

The place of worship erected not once, but three times in one of the most desolate places on Earth.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

An eatery in a shallow river where diners can enjoy their meal mere feet from the base of an artificial waterfall.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Giant pagoda houses the car that drove Thích Quảng Đức to his death by self-immolation.

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

A precariously perched golden rock defies gravity and brings pilgrims from across Myanmar.

A neolithic tomb converted into a tiny chapel.

Oldest Protestant church in the Middle East, designed to resemble a synagogue.

Ancient burial grounds of the wealthy.

Legend says this cave housed a 16th-century cannibal and his family of 48.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.