Places embentley1 Wants to Go

An Aztec temple, the largest man-made pyramid in the world, sits buried in earth with a Spanish church set on top.

Underground monastery and fortress.

Kenyan restaurant is a carnivore's paradise, serving exotic meats at its ultimate 'Beast of a Feast.'

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

This Scottish manor house is a lush relic from the life of a literary great.

A true treehouse near Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

A cave network located at the southernmost tip of mainland Greece was once believed to be an entrance to Hades.

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

Despite centuries of architectural innovation, this French castle is being built like it's the 13th century.

What might be the largest completely Jewish town in the world outside of Israel now faces dwindling numbers and empty streets.

UNESCO-protected ancient burial ground.

Crumbling necropolis set high above Fez.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.