Places jtaeubner Wants to Go

During the 17th-century, orphaned infants were placed in this barrel to be cared for by the hospital.

The woman who helped save 15th-century France was born in this humble home.

This UFO crash-landed on the outskirts of a French town in 2009.

A centuries-old quest to create artificial life is alive and well in the French town of Limoux.

A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.

This sanctuary is home to donkeys who finally get to rest after a life of toil.

The social hall of this former factory is a Communist-era time capsule.

A massive cave once a secret military base is now home to thousands of bats.

These cascading falls resonate throughout the Bulgarian forest.

These natural cliffs look like they are a part of an old castle complex.

Not far from a popular beach, an unfinished, abandoned mansion for Bulgaria's last communist dictator.

This neon lit Georgian cave claims to hold the boulder Prometheus was chained to.

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

The cave holds a spectacular array of stalactites and stalagmites, including one shaped like a giant human heart.

A gleaming white and undulating tower marks the border between Georgia and Turkey.

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

This architecturally eclectic fortress witnessed centuries of bloody turmoil, including the massacre of its ruling clan.

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

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

The second largest in the world, this massive underground void has its own subway.

The largest Buddhist city in Europe is a haven for chess fanatics.

Volcanic irregularity? Odd erosion? Alien eggs? Local legends compete to explain these strange orbs.

The Nazis lost more men trying to take this Russian-held Stalingrad apartment block than they did when taking Paris.

Veryovkina Cave is more than 1.3 miles deep—the deepest known in the world.