Places HCcHcC Wants to Go

This metal tower in the desert provides views of a handful of Nazca geoglyphs.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

This outdoor sculpture gallery is a modern-day homage to Andean culture and history.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.

Come for the whole sides of slow-roasted lamb, stay for the regional Kurdish specialties.

A surprising and unconventional mosque hidden in the subsoil of Istanbul.

A gorgeous, Gaudí-esque stairway constructed in the city of Istanbul by a prominent Jewish family.

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

The deepest underground city in Turkey was designed to protect 20,000 people behind massive stone doors.

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

This Ottoman bridge is a rare covered bridge with shops, and considers itself the only bazaar bridge in the world.

Feast on the freshest of fish by the Bosphorus.

Wash down heaping platters of meze with raki at one of the city's best taverns.

Homesick Syrian refugees head to this restaurant for a taste of Damascus.

Eat your way through history.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.