Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

The controversial final resting place of the equally controversial first president of Turkmenistan.

The remains of a medieval city loom in one of the most isolated desert regions of Turkmenistan.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

Descend 2,030 years into the past in an ancient tunnel built to support Jerusalem's most famous wall.

A Biblically notable site over the ruins of an ancient city that is now a protected World Heritage site.

An ancient underground cultic temple where sunlight penetrates on the summer solstice.

Built by a king and rebuilt by an emperor, this aqueduct transported water for 1,200 years to this ancient Mediterranean hub.

Hidden beneath a washing machine in a fake kibbutz, this secret bullet factory has been preserved as a museum.

Idol made by King Jeroboam for the Israelites.

This archaeological site was the center of the extinct Yarmukian culture which developed the first roads and pottery in Israel.

One of the few guarded stops along the great spice route.

A secluded fortress from the days of the Crusades that offers breathtaking views.

A sprawling ancient Jewish cemetery with over 30 rock-hewn burial caves.

An ancient quarry rediscovered by a dog and claimed by biblical kings, a German cult, and the Freemasons.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.

The bluer than blue waters in these natural Israeli caves are reached via the world's steepest cable car.

You can row a boat through this ancient underground reservoir.

Perched above the bustling town of Kerak is a sprawling, ruinous castle that has witnessed nearly a millennia of Levantine history.

These ruins by the Dead Sea is where John the Baptist met his untimely end.