Places driessouvereyns Wants to Go

This well-preserved Ottoman-era Cairene mansion hosts a facinating archive of Egyptian architecure, from the pharaohs and sultans to the modern day.

This funerary monument to the guillotined king and queen of France became a political lightning rod and a site of pilgrimage for French monarchists.

The oldest sanctuary in the Sammarinese Republic.

More than 5,000 years old, D27 is the largest dolmen in the Netherlands and was already standing long before Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids were built.

A late 4th-century BC archaeological wonder located just outside the suburbs of Thessaloniki, Greece.

The ruins of Illinois's first state penitentiary, and former Federal Military Prison, from 1833.

One of the world’s few undersea pedestrian tunnels connects Honshu and Kyushu islands.

Topped by a distinctive beehive dome, it’s been called by architectural historians and locals, “Brooklyn's Sacré-Cœur.”

Deep within the mountains, a towering natural wall of tightly packed basalt columns mimics a colossal ancient fortress built by no human hands.

Overlooking beautiful Rhossili Bay are the remnants of a former World War II radar station.

It's a massive, rusted fountain that survived an earthquake in 1988.

A hauntingly preserved early 20th-century industrial flour mill featuring a grand central tower, ornate spiral staircases, and original milling machinery left untouched.

A 1600-year-old church carved into the rock, with painted frescoes from 900.

The Catedral Basílica de Salvador is special for its stunning Baroque interior and the historic sepulchre of Mem de Sá, connecting the church to Salvador’s colonial past.

Carved through granite boulder fields and primeval forests, this roaring river valley once served as the secret naval training ground for the legendary Tay Son insurgency.

Walk through a well-preserved World War II Nazi prison and transit camp.

A seven-story circular concrete tower, once the heart of Ferrara’s Eridania distillery, resembles a modern industrial Colosseum.

The museum is located in one of the two remaining military gymnasiums left in the United States.

A popular East Bay hiking trail houses the ruins of a sanitarium that was destroyed in a blaze 50 years ago.

Cushing was one of the founders of the United States and his grave is located in a tiny, odd, tucked-away state park with very little signage.

A monorail that was built to serve a new development but technical problems, lack of users, and a pandemic caused it to be closed and abandoned.

Standing as a 12th-century architectural titan, this trio of brick structures boasts the tallest surviving Cham tower in Vietnam, reaching an impressive height of 38 meters.

A busy trail network outside Ketchum, Idaho, hides a small piece of early Forest Service history.

In Idaho’s high desert, underground water resurfaces as a remarkably rich spring-fed creek.