Places embentley1 Wants to Go

Luxurious devotion and 500,000 images of Buddha in Myanmar.

A mere stone's throw from Islamabad exists a spectacular display of three millennia of humanity's progress.

This lost city belongs to one of the earliest civilizations in the world.

This ancient city—home to nine civilizations—is soon to be buried under 200 feet of water.

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

Thousands of Haitians travel to the waterfalls to ask the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and her voodoo counterpart Erzulie for healing in a yearly pilgrimage.

Highly unusual subterranean stupa and adjacent cave monastery.

This iconic fortress was once the crown jewel of Haiti's national defense.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

This tiny Bulgarian town offers a stunning location in the mountains and a storied history.

This historic black and white monastery is one of Bulgaria's architectural jewels.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

A grand imperial capital left to fall into magnificent ruin.

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

Birthplace of the "Cat in the Cradle" and a cluster of iconic, original windmills that let the Dutch tame the seas.

This beautiful system of tunnels built into natural rock serves as a centuries old plumbing system.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.