Places atozenith Wants to Go

Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.

A secret climbing tree hides along the side of a Costa Rican road.

Dine inside a giant caterpillar at this community-run eatery.

In Costa Rica's cloud forest, the roots of a woody ficus create a botanical bridge.

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

Once the foundation for a mansion, these ruins now offer amazing panoramic coastal views.

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

This wonderful rock formation constitutes the first geopark in Uruguay.

The oldest café in Montevideo preserves its history as the city's bohemian hub.

This South Pacific volcano has been blowing its stack for over 800 years and is said to be home to a cult leader waiting to be reborn.

Plains of ash and pair of semi-active volcanoes contribute to the otherworldly beauty of this little-known Vanuatu island.

The fully functional, submerged Vanuatu Post Office is definitely one of a kind.

These lesser-known Maltese catacombs date back over 1,700 years.

Enigmatic tombs and cave dwellings on the outskirts of a rural village.

Hidden beneath a restaurant, underground tunnels tell the story of Malta’s tragic role in World War II.

This prison on the Maltese island of Gozo is almost 500 years old, and they have the graffiti to prove it.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

A centuries-old forgotten underworld lies beneath Malta.

This church is named for one of the most dramatic tales in the early Christian church.

A hidden tunnel of bones in one of Malta's oldest churches.

Overshadowed by other, more famous Maltese catacombs, this ancient burial chamber has one of the best examples of a ritual agape table.

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.