Places inesgmartins Wants to Go

The shell of a medieval fortress offers commanding views of the area it once protected.

Visitors dip into a variety of pools of what was once ice.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The observation point offers spectacular views of the ruins of an ancient Armenian capital.

Armenia's premier center of astrophysical research was established during the Soviet era.

This little medieval church hidden in the center of Yerevan was lost and rediscovered—twice.

The ruins of a medieval monastery built on a perilous slope.

This medieval manuscript collection has some of the most obscure and ancient texts in the world.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

She asked for a potato cellar and over the next 23 years he gave her a network of holy caves.

After visiting hours, this picturesque waterfall is essentially turned "off" to be used for hydroelectric power.

This series of Armenian caves held the oldest brain, shoe, and winery in the world.

Celebrated example of Ottoman architecture that also served as a site for brutal massacres.

This abandoned airplane hanger is said to have once been a top secret launch facility.

Inat Kuća, or "House of Spite," is more than just an oddly named restaurant.

The remains of the last Bosnian fortress to fall to the Ottomans are still standing.

This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.

This ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.

This surreal memorial/cemetery is a necropolis of crumbling stonework and puzzle-shaped headstones.