Places butterflywings Wants to Go

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

With only one flight in and out a week, the unfenced runway at this small island's airport transforms into a seaside park for locals and visitors.

Beautifully carved tombstones fill this unmarked graveyard, uniquely situated near the village's famous stone wine cellars.

Christianity and Islam have clashed, yet here a Serbian Orthodox church and a mosque stand together.

The oldest church in Serbia was also the ecclesiastical seat of the region during the Middle Ages.

This natural monument has an origin story steeped in legend.

Through the colossal entrance to this cave you'll find limestone tubs and an underground waterfall.

A museum dedicated to the former country.

A misnamed well, with a deep dark past.

Mummies preserved naturally for seven centuries.

The world's oldest map of the holy land gives us a fragmented glimpse of the layout of biblical nations.

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.

A network of ancient Egyptian tombs built into the cliff face along the Nile.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."

The largest madrasa in Morocco once housed more than 900 students within its exquisite walls.

One of Western Africa's oldest mosques, this Timbuktu icon has stood for nearly 700 years.

Where thousands of slaves passed through the "Door of No Return."

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.