Places evansjennifer Wants to Go

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.

The observation point offers spectacular views of the ruins of an ancient Armenian capital.

A cheese discovery made by shepherds became the pride of a region.

A historic Masonic building overlooking the Puget Sound.

The world's tallest circular building is loaded with symbolism, but many just see a big donut.

A fantastic assortment of China's finest and most disturbing wares.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

A brilliant turquoise lake in the mountains.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

Built entirely of interlocking pieces, construction of this Chinese Muslim house of worship required zero nails.

A boulder carved into the shape of the cosmonaut's head.

This mysterious complex of abandoned yurts and fading murals was meant to be a center of science and spirituality in Kyrgyzstan.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.