Places anhogan Wants to Go

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

Standing proud atop a Turkish bluff, this Ottoman palace has retained its grandeur despite being abandoned for centuries.

The best-preserved ancient theater in the world.

This museum was invented in a novel before being made real by the author.

This Turkish cave boasts some rather bizarre associations with the King of Mount Olympus.

This crucial gathering spot along the "hippie trail" still displays old notes between traveling beatniks and backpackers.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

The deepest underground city in Turkey was designed to protect 20,000 people behind massive stone doors.

1513 Turkish world map, full of European state secrets and snarky commentary.

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

A sixth-century Byzantine cistern hidden below a modern carpet store.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

The secret centuries-old German cemetery in the heart of the Vatican.

A hidden workshop for creating and restoring Papal mosaic masterpieces.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.