Places mgraynernz Wants to Go

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

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

Wash down heaping platters of meze with raki at one of the city's best taverns.

Visitors dating back to the 1600s carved their marks in the stones of the iconic tower.

A pink sandstone column once used in ancient times to measure one's belly after a night of debauchery.

This 14th century wine cellar is home to the oldest barrel-stored wine in the world.

This fascinating museum in an old water tower holds the world's largest collection of Vodou artifacts from western and central Africa.

This tank participated in the liberation of Dijon from Nazi occupation.

The woman who helped save 15th-century France was born in this humble home.

A unique museum tells the story of the day-to-day life of World War I soldiers.

Site of one of World War I's most horrific scenes.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.

A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.

A crucified and bearded female saint.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.

This renaissance château was home to an infamous witch hunter who sent a hundred suspected witches to their deaths.

An army of sleeping knights sculpted by a self-taught local artist beautifully depict an old Czech legend.

The sanctuary holds what was once believed to be the saint's incorruptible tongue.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.