Places cisleyortiz Wants to Go

This magnificent stepwell is designed as an inverted temple and adorned with 1,500 sculptures.

This whimsical home made entirely from clay is basically a giant piece of pottery.

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

Someone left a Boeing 737 in a field in southern Bali.

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

Large, airy hallways hide within an impenetrable fortress that beckons urban explorers.

A bike train runs along a disused railway line through the tranquil French countryside.

A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.

The small sanctuaries lie just off the beaten path near one of Bhutan's most famous attractions.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

A 1,500-year-old, 3-story subterranean city where ancient Persians took refuge in times of war.

A tower-like theater in the Swiss Alps built to withstand the high winds and avalanches of the mountain pass.

The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

This ancient Chinese observatory still contains early astronomy technology.

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

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

The decaying remains of a 1960s mechanical wonderland that never officially closed.

The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

An imposing Omani fortress surrounded by date palm trees.