Places iamangelsummers Wants to Go

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

Take a ride back in time with a steam locomotive trip through Eritrea’s mountainous countryside.

This village surrounded by breathtaking waterfalls is one of the wettest places on earth.

Modest but unique pyramid built for a pharaoh has been reduced to a “heap of stone.”

An unexpected treasure trove of military oddities, Turkish interior design, and North Korean art.

This fortress was built using the last surviving stones from the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

The once great capital of Egypt now crumbles forward as evocative ruins.

Brightly painted boulders scattered throughout the Sinai Desert.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

A massive work of modern art that appears to be a crop circle in the middle of the desert.

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

One of the last refuges of the endangered eastern lowland gorilla.

Home to pygmy hunter-gatherers, hundreds of animal and bird species, and the strange okapi, or forest giraffe.

The most biologically diverse protected area in Africa is also the most dangerous.

The world's only facility where orphaned mountain gorillas are cared for.

Mount Nyiragongo has erupted at least 34 times since 1882 and is home to the world's largest lava lake.

These natural wonders have taken millennia to form into the stunning marvels they are today.

Camels and crocodiles share the black waters of this stunning Saharan oasis.

The defense built to protect one of the last found pieces of land on Earth.

Santa Monica is one of the world's longest, most beautiful, and least developed beaches: just white sand for miles, a single beach shack, and the concrete shell of an abandoned resort that never got past its foundations.

An incredibly salty lake inside the crater of an extinct volcano.

Once a bustling fishing village and trading post, today these Cape Verde ruins provide a home only for seabirds and turtles.