Places avermonter Wants to Go

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The last standing example of an ancient district's teatime tradition.

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

Small church on top of a huge rock column.

Underground monastery and fortress.

Rock-hewn monastery complex with hundreds of cave structures tucked away into the mountainside.

The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.

Reaching the "Church in the Sky" requires scaling the cliff face of a sandstone pinnacle with a 650-foot drop.

Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.

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

A century-old stone hermitage overlooks this remote pass in the Hoggar mountains, surrounded by a landscape of eroded volcanic cores.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

This charming woodland trail is peppered with poetry.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

A gardener's enduring labor of love is spread throughout a small Vermont town.

A Spanish town built into the cliffs.

More than 70 detailed dioramas—including some rather nontraditional ones—fill this charming museum.

A deep mark on the remains of a Roman temple, believed to be left by a legendary warrior.

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.