Places PaulFisher23 Wants to Go

70 years of foreign military influence on the shores of Tripoli, Libya.

A recreation of the bar from the classic 1942 movie “Casablanca.”

In the hometown of the Catholic saint and Nobel Peace Prize winner, a memorial dedicated to her legacy.

An Ottoman-era mosque looking over the Black Sea.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

An exquisite example of Uyghur Islamic architecture.

The author of Animal Farm and 1984 was born to a civil servant in British India.

This abandoned fort is said to be the most haunted place in India, so much so that entry is prohibited after sunset.

This mosque was built overnight as an act of defiance against the British colonial authorities.

Space-age minarets towering over Islamabad.

This magnificent blue mosque in Afghanistan is surrounded by thousands of white doves.

The last operating synagogue in Afghanistan is run by Zablon Simintov, the last remaining Jew in Afghanistan.

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

The remains of a medieval city loom in one of the most isolated desert regions of Turkmenistan.

A memorial to the thousands of Turkmen soldiers and civilians who died in a bloody 1881 battle.

The controversial final resting place of the equally controversial first president of Turkmenistan.

200-foot-high minaret and only remnant of Afghanistan's lost city of the Turquoise Mountain.

These little castles each held thousands of pigeons.

17th century mosque for Shah Abbas' harem.

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.

9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.

The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq until ISIS blew it up twice and then drove over it with bulldozers.

Mysterious lost empire of the Silk Road.

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