Places Liisa Wants to Go

Beatlemania is still going strong... at least in Kazakhstan.

In Kazakhstan, a colorful cathedral with many lives once survived the most powerful earthquake in the region.

An 18-meter-long sarcophagus of a constantly growing dead prophet.

The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.

Seven early Christians were sealed into a cave where legend has it they slept unharmed for centuries.

Live a night as a Byzantine King, with a minibar and private jacuzzi.

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.

The home-turned-museum of Barış Manço, the mustachioed Turkish Elvis for children.

Taking the subway here means doing so over a bridge located in the middle of an estuary.

Have tea in a cemetery with a dazzling view of Istanbul.

This historic hotel preserves many treasures from its heyday hosting passengers on the Orient Express.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

CDMX's home for the world's culinary delights.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

You can release a young butterfly at this beautiful indoor garden.

Worm salt and other local ingredients are on the menu at this cult favorite ice cream shop.

Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.

Dummies recreate radiological discoveries from history.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.