Places emehaag Wants to Go

One of the largest and oldest caravansaries in Persia.

The ancient necropolis houses the immense rock-cut tombs of four Persian kings.

The most sacred Jewish shrine in Iran and a fine example of restoration works gone wrong.

The palace of the King of Kings, burned by Alexander the Great.

Iran's colorful terraces are a rare geological masterpiece.

This multi-level, aqueduct-footbridge hybrid is one of the greatest works of the Spanish Renaissance.

The surviving pieces of an ancient aqueduct that may have fed into the lost Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

Ancient rock-cut tomb? Definitely. That of a great Median king? Unlikely.

A shrine on the shores of the Tigris.

This beautiful arched gate is all that remains of the fortress the ancient mountaintop town of Amadiya once was.

A 2200 year old vessel may have been able to keep a charge.

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.

A mystery of a buried artist and a 14th-century church.

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

Temple complex that once housed the famous statue of Nike.

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

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

On top of a hill, this Catholic church overlooks the most Catholic island in Greece.

This ancient statue of Dionysus lies unfinished and abandoned in one of Greece's oldest quarries.

A stunning little chapel built on a rock in the Mediterranean Sea on the Greek island of Leros.

The alleged vampires after which these islets are named may have actually been plague victims.

This church was constructed on the site where St. Philip the Apostle preached to the ancient Athenians.

Malta’s largest cemetery is a Victorian-era architectural masterpiece.

Estimated at over 1,000 years old, one of Malta's oldest trees serves as a living link to its ancient past.