Places novalinne Wants to Go

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

The world's second-tallest flagpole stands proud despite dropping rank.

The first version of this stalwart construction appeared around 3,000 years ago.

A strip of neutral ground where the people of Tajikistan and Afghanistan come together to trade.

This remote, abandoned Soviet observatory promises spectacular views for those who can reach it.

This ornate mosque is said to hold the remains of Muhammad's granddaughter beneath its dome of pure gold.

Also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus, this is one of the world's largest and oldest mosques.

A historic sanctuary in the last refuge of the Aramaic language.

This ancient mountain monastery welcomes all manner of faith in an effort to keep Christians in Syria.

Mysterious lost empire of the Silk Road.

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

A 1,500-year-old ghost settlement is slowly fading away.

Amid the rubble of Aleppo's Old Quarter, part of a historic market has been restored and re-opened.

One of the oldest and largest castles in the world.

What is left of the pillar of Saint Simeon, the voluntary martyr who climbed the column to give his sermons, remaining perched there for thirty-seven years.

The inhabitants of the world’s largest wetland have learned to navigate its dramatic seasonal changes.

Every October, one of the largest migration of mammals in the world thunders through Boma National Park.

A stark contrast between red sand dunes and the white sand beach immediately next to it can be seen along the southern Somali coast.

Amid the ruins of the 1990s Somali Civil War, life goes on as normal.

The world's largest bioluminescent area was undiscovered by science until 2005.

This cave located in the badlands of Somaliland contains some of the oldest cave art in Africa.

The ship that got left behind.

A British general, a suggestive tree, a map of paradise.

You can find more than 200 species of tropical plants at this garden owned by a former ambassador.