Places kattrewerts Wants to Go

The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq until ISIS blew it up twice and then drove over it with bulldozers.

This ancient stone bridge is a hub for daredevils.

An ancient sanctuary that has long been a holy site for the Chaldean Christian Church.

This beautiful arched gate is all that remains of the fortress the ancient mountaintop town of Amadiya once was.

An ancient fortified mound raised over the millennia from settlements built one on top of the other.

9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.

The sacred shrine of the Yazidis.

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.

This mysterious abandoned fort looks like something pulled right from Arabian legend.

The cluster of igloo-like domes forms the remains of an ancient burial ground.

Feed it cash, get your very own gold bar.

One of the largest sand dunes in the world is nicknamed the "Scary Mountain" due to its steep slope and sharp incline.

Over the dunes of the Empty Quarter, the mysterious music of the desert.

The oldest surviving mosque in the UAE has mysterious origins and unusual architecture.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

Billed as the "largest natural flower garden in the world" this Middle Eastern show field has little competition at 45 million flowers.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

A faithful reproduction of Al-Jazari's enormous water clock.

One of the most remote and isolated villages on the Arabian Peninsula.

A mesmerizing reservoir nestled at the heart of a pre-Islamic Yemeni village.

A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

Some claim these desert ruins are from the legendary "Atlantis of the Sands."

These gnarly desert trees produce the prized aromatic resin traded along the ancient incense trail.