Places Luis Morato Wants to Go

Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.

Thousands of slain Soviet soldiers are buried within the shadow of this enormous obelisk.

This whimsical winery by Antoni Gaudí looks ripped from the pages of a fairytale.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.

A small church ornamented with medieval erotic sculptures.

This century-old ruined temple was reborn as "The Church of Skate."

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

A five-square-mile slice of Spain on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

Step back in time and witness the fall of Constantinople.

This spaceship sculpture in the middle of the Slovakian capital looks like it just crash-landed.

This former charity hospital for elderly clergy houses some of Seville’s most treasured paintings.

The alleged house of the Virgin Mary is tucked away in a park and nature preserve on Mt. Koressos in Turkey and is holy to both Catholics and Muslims alike.

The odd cement nubs littering this Spanish square are actually the entrances to a series of buried silos.

A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

You can cross from one country to another in a single hop on this little bridge.