Places ggilbert43 Wants to Go

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

Watch the seas clash at the place where according to Maori tradition, the spirits depart for their journey to the afterlife.

One of New Zealand’s few castles boasts beautiful gardens, grand architecture, and a history filled with family drama.

A staggering number of rock carvings in an abandoned quarry.

The building is a gigantic piece of art inspired by the shape of a desert rose.

Climb down into the largest sinkhole in Qatar.

A sinkhole and now a swimming hole, too, full of dazzling turquoise water.

This spectacular mosque houses the second-largest chandelier in the world.

An imposing Omani fortress surrounded by date palm trees.

This bazaar is one of the oldest in the Arabian world.

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

Giant reed houses made in the marshes of Southern Iraq.

An ancient sanctuary that has long been a holy site for the Chaldean Christian Church.

This beautiful arched gate is all that remains of the fortress the ancient mountaintop town of Amadiya once was.

A shrine on the shores of the Tigris.

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

9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.

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

An underground network of massive stone arches and their skylit vaults support ruins of portico structures above.

These ruins once flourished as the capital of the Lydian kingdom, often credited with the invention of metal coinage.

This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.

This former Imperial summer home was the venue for a royal slap that once echoed 'round the world.

Mediterranean castle on a tiny Turkish island.