Places piegem Wants to Go

Small church on top of a huge rock column.

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

Unfinished monument to peace between Turkey and Armenia, long divided by a dispute over genocide.

These ancient ruins include a stadium dating back to 400 BC.

A former salt mine is now a cool picnic spot for families and asthmatics.

This elevator was built in 1907 to connect two neighborhoods separated by a steep, rocky cliff.

A small mountain at the crossroads of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria that some believe was the landing point of Noah's Ark.

This airport also offers travelers the chance to view thousands of years of Turkish history.

This beautiful train graveyard is one of the largest collections of steam locomotives in the Mediterranean and Europe.

This hidden gem is bathed in beautiful natural light.

At this ancient settlement at the foot of Mount Babadağ, honeycomb tombs are carved into a round cliff.

This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.

Flames have been burning within this mountain for more than 2,500 years.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

China’s breathtaking futuristic library is lined floor to ceiling with fake books.

This tribute to Sunderland's mining past stands outside the home of its football club.

You can climb to the top of the column built to honor the "father of British inland navigation."

This tri-part waterfall is a little bit of fairytale beauty in the heart of Luxembourg's Little Switzerland.