Places marcwithasea Wants to Go

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

A statue erected on an infamous cliff where young boys would hold dangerous "pee offs" to prove their mettle.

This silent sentry in the crypt below a large Gothic cathedral is often knee-deep in water.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

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

A wooden dock art installation on Chiloé Island taps into the island's indigenous mythology.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

At this faithfully preserved medina off the Moroccan tourist circuit you can walk through six centuries of history in one day.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

Spain's unique Mosque-Cathedral has been a place of worship for both Muslims and Christians throughout its history.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."