Places bethanyherron Wants to Go

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

More than 100 monumental tombs carved into rock are preserved at this ancient Nabataean site in the Arabian Desert.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

One of the most remote and isolated villages on the Arabian Peninsula.

Yemen's "Stone Palace" looks like it was carved right out of the tall stone column on which it is built.

Remains of an abandoned coral city.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

The Wonder Road aka Doobie Lane, a mile-long strip of dirt road filled with folk art.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

An Argentinian businessman facing terminal cancer built this whimsical medieval village using salvaged materials.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.