Places cisleyortiz Wants to Go

Little India's hidden gem of kindness and good food.

This riverside restaurant has been serving customers since 1146.

This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

This unique temple complex remains off the typical tourist trail.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.

On this wooded path, a stained-glass window creates a spellbinding forest cathedral.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

This elegant neoclassical garden is a peaceful oasis in the middle of the Nepalese capital.

This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.

This dizzying span over the ancient Algerian city was once the highest suspension bridge in the world.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.

An otherworldly alpine pasture in Slovenia with historical ties to WWII and architecture that recalls Middle Earth.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

Legend has it fairies gathered at the site of this medieval castle.

This mysterious, medieval cathedral remains unbuilt but fiercely protected.