Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

Live a night as a Byzantine King, with a minibar and private jacuzzi.

Naturally protected city carved from a rock face.

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

3D war panorama in Damascus built with help from North Korea.

One of the oldest and largest castles in the world.

The Syrian headquarters of alleged hashish-smoking assassins.

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

Mysterious lost empire of the Silk Road.

Modern museum, designed for Jihadi tourists.

A patchwork of ruins from various civilizations in one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities.

Rock-hewn monastery complex with hundreds of cave structures tucked away into the mountainside.

This extensive collection of vintage Soviet cars is the only one of its kind in the Caucasus.

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

The secret room where early Bolsheviks cranked out propaganda fliers on a smuggled printing press.

A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.