Places hapichapi Wants to Go

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

Bible stories are brought to life with gloriously cartoonish kitsch in this South American theme park.

Visit this odd display of indigenous style in Argentine wine country.

A small but industrious mining operation that allows visitors to touch precious gems while they are still in the rock.

Mysterious and ancient carved standing stones.

A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

Site where Moses may have received the Ten Commandments.

An archaeological site believed to be the burial place of the "mother of us all."

A monumental underground karstic wonderland is also the water source for over a million citizens of Beirut.

The most gigantic, swoony, intimidating trio of fingers in all of antiquity.

A more chill but no less fascinating version of the famous ancient archeological site.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

A shrine on the shores of the Tigris.

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

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

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

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

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

The mosaic floor of a 4th-century synagogue features a pagan zodiac wheel alongside traditional images of a Torah ark and menorahs.

Neighborhood in Jerusalem is home to the ultra-orthodox haredim.