Places lizziecmporter Wants to Go

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

Naturally protected city carved from a rock face.

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

This 1939 grave of a British soldier now receives legions of unlikely visitors.

This ancient village is peopled by a religious minority and is still using some of the same materials it was built with thousands of years ago.

This former monument to an invented Iraqi victory was turned into a military camp during the subsequent invasion.

Hidden beneath a washing machine in a fake kibbutz, this secret bullet factory has been preserved as a museum.

Submerged ruins of a Neolithic coastal settlement, where houses, wells, graves and skeletons have been unearthed.

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

A city entirely devoted to illegal gun production.

This commanding mausoleum holds the remains of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.

The headquarters of Pakistan's first press club remains a haven for debate and discussion.

The bulletproof cross stands at the only operational Christian cemetery in Pakistan's most populated city.

Space-age minarets towering over Islamabad.

One of the last surviving ancient Buddhist sites in the region, it escaped the brunt of several Hun invasions thanks to its remote location.

The Great Wall of Sindh, Pakistan's mighty fort.

The third largest ship breaking yard in the world has created an eerie shipping graveyard in southern Pakistan.

A 17th-century mosque that was used for war more than worship.

The place that allegedly inspired James Hilton's depiction of Shangri-La.

A place as enchanting as the journey to reach it is harrowing.