Places bertshetler Wants to Go

This mysterious cliffside carving of an ancient Hittite deity has baffled scholars for centuries.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

This beautiful train graveyard is one of the largest collections of steam locomotives in the Mediterranean and Europe.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.

This former estate of a fascist leader is now a burnt out ruin leading to a system of secret tunnels.

Once a state-of-the-art tuberculosis treatment spa, these ruins are now ruled by paintball players.

Colorful concentric circles honor a small Croatian town's supposed spot at the nucleus of it all.

This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.

This 135-year-old weather station studied the effects of the climate on human health.

A tower marking the spot where Yugoslavia began its resistance against the invading Nazis stands neglected, but not quite forgotten.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

A stone circle on the slopes of a Caribbean volcano commemorates the leader of an anti-slavery uprising.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.