Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

One of the most remote and isolated villages on the Arabian Peninsula.

The fire inside this temple has burned for more than 1,500 years.

This remote mountain shrine is one of the most sacred Zoroastrian temples remaining in the world.

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

Burial site of a Jewish prophet revered in Iran.

This ancient fortress in Iran was once the oldest and largest treasury in the world.

This ancient burial site is believed to be one of the first earthquake-protected structures in the world.

One of the largest and oldest caravansaries in Persia.

A 1,500-year-old, 3-story subterranean city where ancient Persians took refuge in times of war.

The vertical-axis windmills of ancient Persia have been grinding flour for 1,000 years and counting.

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

Hydraulic systems in an ancient underground Iranian city.

This ruined fortress was the stronghold for a persecuted medieval leader and his infamous Assassins.

Ancient structures used to make and preserve ice in the deserts of Persia.

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

The sacred shrine of the Yazidis.

9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.

This remnant of an ancient Persian city is considered to be the world's largest single-span brick vault arch.

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

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

An ancient fortified mound raised over the millennia from settlements built one on top of the other.

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

This medieval manuscript collection has some of the most obscure and ancient texts in the world.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.