Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

Named for the biblical warrior, the largest castle in Israel actually dates to the Middle Ages.

Ghost Town in the Demilitarized Zone of the Golan Heights.

This sixth-century synagogue was first reconstructed digitally, then in real life.

Europe's "only museum dedicated to the decapod" is full of quirky and absurdist displays, including one featuring the "famous" Giant Crab of Margate.

These elaborate gothic monuments honor Verona's medieval lords.

These narrow stone granaries have been used to store and dry out grain for hundreds of years.

Built as a training camp, this site became a detainment center for prisoners of war and German civilians during World War I.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

A tomb in this cemetery holds soil from every country in Latin America.

The lantern carried by the infamous Guy Fawkes when he was arrested while attempting to blow the houses of Parliament and the King of England to smithereens

The church and nearby castle are all that remains of a medieval village, mysteriously abandoned.

This 18th-century fort surrounded by a moat was used to store gun powder and ammunition, and now sits in the middle of a large park in Dublin.

More than 1,000 stone figures were discovered in a small Nigerian town, where they had been sitting for centuries.

On the wall of this medieval walkway, a symbol of the Spanish Inquisition.

The crumbling ruins of an abandoned 12th-century monastery.

Preserved behind glass, the ruins of a medieval building used to store human remains.

Invented in the mid-19th century, this machine could send copied images via telegraph lines.

A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

A massive collection of petroglyphs dating back some 40,000 years.

Nelson Mandela lived here with his family from 1946 until his arrest in 1962.

This unassuming farm complex was once the epicenter of an underground liberation group.