Places hanssterkendries Wants to Go

The most visited pilgrimage site in Armenia once held a saint in a pit for 13 years.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

The crumbling remains of a once-grand building.

Volcanic activity causes small pools of super-heated mud to boil furiously.

An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.

These roaring primates were considered a divine creature in the cosmology of the Maya.

Monkeys inhabit the lush forest surrounding ancient Mayan ruins once considered sacred.

Giant kites are flown during this Day of the Dead celebration in Guatemala.

This portion of a lovely Belize beach is infested with (harmless) sharks and rays.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

A 220-foot deep watery drop-off, filled with marine life.

Come for the springs; stay for the mud bath.

The larger of two volcanic peaks rising out of the crystalline waters of the Caribbean.

A city continually buried under the ash of a volcano that has been erupting for more than 15 years.

The royal seat of Henri Christophe, a formerly enslaved man who became Haiti's only king.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

A gallery of underwater art that can be visited by man and fish alike.

A glowing underwater cliff attracts marine life and divers in equal measure.

Divers can encounter an abandoned warship encircled by a giant kraken submerged in the British Virgin Islands.

A mountain of conch shells created by centuries of fishermen.

The world’s largest underwater sculpture is found just off the coast of Nassau.