Places NicholasManila Wants to Go

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

This 3,800-year-old site contains markers used to study the movement of the sun and moon and create a lunar calendar.

Stone pillars and a petrified wedding party in the hills of North Macedonia.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.

The water here is so clear you can see the mysteriously sunken ship from the surface.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

An eerie gravel road full of shards of red bricks leads to the ruins of a deserted factory.

A striped 12th-century basilica sits in the countryside of Sardinia.

This one-of-a-kind archeological site is home to strange prehistoric ruins, the original use of which is still a mystery.

This mysterious Sardinian festival sees a horde of blank-faced equestrians compete for tin stars.

Ancient cave tombs known as the "houses of fairies."

Large, airy hallways hide within an impenetrable fortress that beckons urban explorers.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

The ceiling of Prohodna Cave in northern Bulgaria affords a peek at the sky via two deity-sized-eye-shaped holes.