Places lizziecmporter Wants to Go

A tower built by an emperor for an antelope.

For more than 40 years this Barnum-inspired half-fox, half-woman has been telling fortunes from her cage in a Pakistani zoo.

A mere stone's throw from Islamabad exists a spectacular display of three millennia of humanity's progress.

Known as the most dangerous bridge in the world, the Hussaini Hanging Bridge is only one of many precarious rope bridges in Northern Pakistan.

This grand Pakistani mausoleum can only be accessed via an almost 1,000 foot long alleyway.

These stairs were built to accommodate royals mounted on elephants.

Massive fortress bastions in the desert of Cholistan.

Lunar landscape, a mud volcano and bizarre rock formations.

One of the largest necropolises in the world is home to a stunning array of historic Middle Eastern tombs.

The world's second largest salt mine, said to have been discovered by Alexander the Great's horse.

Reputedly haunted sandstone necropolis with exquisite stone carvings.

This lost city belongs to one of the earliest civilizations in the world.

The original resting place of Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony's only daughter.

An extraordinary mix of Phoenician, Roman, early Christian, and Byzantine ruins beautifully set overlooking the Mediterranean.

The abstract sandstone rock formations at this Algerian national park are rich with prehistoric art.

This former cathedral is now a bustling library packed with students and pigeons.

This massive monument towers over the city as a constant reminder of the lives lost during Algeria's hard-won war for independence.

Two Chinese dragons guard the caves of this medieval temple in Iran.

This lake in northwest Iran has started turning from green to red more frequently than scientists are comfortable with.

One of the holiest Shi'i shrines in Iran honors the life and death of a learned noblewoman who became a saint.

Marked by the hand of the explorer Henry Morton Stanley.

Iranian tombstones shaped like male and female sexual organs.

Long before air conditioning, Persian architects found an ingenious way to cool off.

Named after a legendary garden called Eram in southern Arabia, built by order of Shaddad, an Arab king who wanted to compete with Paradise.