Places kattrewerts Wants to Go

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

This World War I fortress is the perfect place to catch a Montenegrin sunset.

One of the world's oldest olive trees, thought to be over 2,000 years old.

This exclusive resort has completely covered a tiny Balkan island in a 5-star warren of guest rooms.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.

One of the oldest and largest castles in the world.

One of the oldest monasteries in the world is a key pilgrimage site for both Muslims and Christians.

This ornate mosque is said to hold the remains of Muhammad's granddaughter beneath its dome of pure gold.

Amid the rubble of Aleppo's Old Quarter, part of a historic market has been restored and re-opened.

The Syrian headquarters of alleged hashish-smoking assassins.

A 1,500-year-old ghost settlement is slowly fading away.

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

Mysterious lost empire of the Silk Road.

A patchwork of ruins from various civilizations in one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities.

A monumental underground karstic wonderland is also the water source for over a million citizens of Beirut.

After this one-of-a-kind palace was built the architect's hands are said to have been cut off to keep it that way.

Village of slate houses, built on a white marble outcrop.

Within the Saudi Arabian desert lies a 2,000-year-old ghost town made of stone and mud.

More than 100 monumental tombs carved into rock are preserved at this ancient Nabataean site in the Arabian Desert.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.