Places caitlinhug7 Wants to Go

A remote island settlement off the coast of Tanzania is a storied archaeological site with an ancient past.

This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.

The culture that built these Tanzanian ruins displayed advanced knowledge of irrigation technology before mysteriously disappearing.

Human ancestor’s 3.6 million year-old footprints.

This sacred, circular cave is lined with pools so clear and still that it's hard to tell where the water begins.

The largest game reserve in Africa is home to thousands of species but refuses to house humans.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

This hidden bridge is where local children leave gifts and messages for the island's fay folk.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

Two ancient Buddhist temples crown this dramatic rocky pinnacle.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

A "simple-hearted artist" turned an isolated Icelandic valley into his own art museum.