Places dezordie Wants to Go

A lonely medieval monastery on an uninhabited island.

One of the best-preserved medieval streets in Europe.

Only open for two days a year, this church links ancient Greek and modern Christian celebrations.

There are many Byzantine-era churches still standing in Athens, but this is the only one with a 2,500-year-old column rising through its roof.

This seaside sanctuary was once one of the most important religious sites for women in ancient Greece.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

This secret coastal village is studded with pastel-colored houses all piled on top of one another.

A Turkish monastery tucked into a cliff wall.

This ancient abandoned church in a remote part of Turkey is in danger of falling over.

An ancient church on a tiny island covered in stone bible stories has controversially been turned into a museum.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

The remains of an ancient city-state along the Silk Road.

Visit a secretive crypt before it crumbles to dust.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

Walrus skulls and narwhal bones were found here while excavating a 900-year old church.

The controversial final resting place of the equally controversial first president of Turkmenistan.

The remains of a medieval city loom in one of the most isolated desert regions of Turkmenistan.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A memorial to the thousands of Turkmen soldiers and civilians who died in a bloody 1881 battle.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

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