Places Luke Cata Wants to Go

Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.

The sophisticated hydraulic system of the Nazca civilization.

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

An Italian hillside ghost town.

The forbidden island of the Tuscan Archipelago may still contain buried treasure.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

This star-shaped military outpost is now simply trying to protect itself from neglect.

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

A small Portuguese cottage formed between boulders in the countryside.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.