Places Edited by aribrown

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

World's largest open air theater spans 24 acres and hosts a massive recreation of the Passion of Christ.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

Remnants of the most densely packed city in world history, that thrived on anarchy for 30 years.

Disused penal colony features prisoner artwork, some sketched in human blood.

The inscribed stone at Kilnasaggart is a remnant from nearly a millennium ago.

This beach runway is off limits during high tide.

Iceland: home to volcanoes, waterfalls and, apparently, Santa?

Mediterranean castle on a tiny Turkish island.

Naturally protected city carved from a rock face.

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

A passage grave used in neolithic rituals.

The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

Ancient artists in the middle of nowhere.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

The place that allegedly inspired James Hilton's depiction of Shangri-La.

Small church on top of a huge rock column.

An Indonesian mosque styled after St. Basil's Cathedral.

Haunted tuberculosis hospital built by the patients.

Ghost Town in the Demilitarized Zone of the Golan Heights.

A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

An independent naturist colony amidst 1000-year-old ruins.

Iranian tombstones shaped like male and female sexual organs.