Places jberkien Wants to Go

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

A haunting theme park is slowly being swallowed by the jungle.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

This Balinese sea temple is thought to be guarded by the hundreds of monkeys that live around it.

The wing of this deserted Boeing 737 almost touches the Dunkin' Donuts next door.

Someone left a Boeing 737 in a field in southern Bali.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

Balconies that have a most unusual accent.

Rusted structures stand like ghosts of Cyprus' 6,000-year-old copper industry.

These ruins disappear beneath the waves every winter.

The site of a prison camp where Cypriot resistance fighters were held in the 1950s.

The largest caravanserai in Cyprus also includes amazing examples of Ottoman architecture.

The eccentric midcentury home of a suspected mafia gun-runner.

The animals wander freely amid this gorgeous stretch of nature.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

The ruins of a fairytale castle with a tumultuous history stand high atop the mountains.

This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

Sex curse discovered on ancient tablet in Cyprus.

A crumbling ghost town with prime views of the dam that doomed it.

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.