Places artandarchaeology Wants to Go

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

This lost city belongs to one of the earliest civilizations in the world.

An ancient city hidden in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

This collection of ancient, mountaintop, underground tombs was once hidden by decades of bloodshed.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

One of Western Africa's oldest mosques, this Timbuktu icon has stood for nearly 700 years.

The most important and best preserved remnant of West Africa's powerful Songhai Empire.

Ancient Manuscripts showcase the civilization of West Africans during the Middle Ages.

These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.

The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.

These naturally balancing rocks were pictured on every Zimbabwean banknote, up to the 100 trillion-dollar note.

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

Remains of an abandoned coral city.

Crumbling pyramids and temple ruins stand within the shadow of this sacred butte.

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.

Ethiopian standing stones featuring remarkably preserved carvings of swords and people.

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

A 500-year-old series of tunnels long believed to be folkloric was uncovered beneath the streets of Puebla.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.