Places heidin617 Wants to Go

Roman ruins, natural methane fires and a lovely beach.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

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

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

This floating cinema brings new meaning to the phrase "going out" to the movies.

Mined to a depth of 240 meters with a perimeter of about 1.6 km, the largest hand-dug excavation in the world.

The mountaintop inspiration for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

The strange, ritualistic-seeming 100+ year old basement of a New Hampshire undergrad society.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

A tunnel dug through the side of a mountain by hand provides convenient yet death-defying access to a small village in China.

Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar.