Places blscioscia Wants to Go

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

The most metal church of all time was built in record time because of an international, pious pissing contest.

Byzantine emperors ruled, lived, and died in this 13th-century palace-turned-museum.

A sixth-century Byzantine cistern hidden below a modern carpet store.

This crucial gathering spot along the "hippie trail" still displays old notes between traveling beatniks and backpackers.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

No one is sure if the world's fourth-largest diamond had been found in a rubbish heap or was pawned by Napoleon's mom.

1513 Turkish world map, full of European state secrets and snarky commentary.

An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.

This museum was invented in a novel before being made real by the author.

Eat your way through history.

The eclectic home of a leading Turkish architect is a gorgeous piece of eye candy.

Wash down heaping platters of meze with raki at one of the city's best taverns.

A neolithic dolmen that was rebuilt after collapsing during the 19th century.

A circle stone within a stone circle.

A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.

The twists and turns of this serpentine maze are over 170 years old.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

The ruins of an 11th-century Norman castle with a rare, perfectly circular shape.

Now nearly dry, this lake is said to be the ancient home of the Lady of the Lake, and was once thought to be bottomless.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.