Places kbk Wants to Go

Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Located within one of Israel's most picturesque monasteries is also the country's first meteorological research station.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

Reputedly haunted sandstone necropolis with exquisite stone carvings.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

One of the most remote and isolated villages on the Arabian Peninsula.

A full figure 4th century incorruptible saint lies in a glass coffin in Croatia.

Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

Ethiopian standing stones featuring remarkably preserved carvings of swords and people.

Invisible bridge parts the waters, invoking biblical images and preserving the ominous feel of an ancient moat.

Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?

The West's first incursion into the Afghan world lies buried beneath a military base.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

These numerous Israeli caves were dug out over hundreds years for reasons ranging from hideouts to burial sites.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.