Places remcrae Wants to Go

These 40,000-year-old stenciled hands are older than the famous cave art in France and Spain.

The jaw of one of humankind's earliest ancestors on display at an overlooked geology museum.

Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

An ancient holy well said to be used by the patron saint of sailors and travelers, lost in the boggy west of Valentia Island.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

An ancient burial ground believed to have been used for ritual sacrifice.

The unique funeral practices of the Toraja can be seen here with graves carved into caves and hung off cliffs.

Ancient human remains unearthed around the iconic monument.

This remarkably well-preserved Incan city managed to survive the conquistadores.

Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.

The sacred shrine of the Yazidis.

The remarkably well-preserved final resting place of a powerful ancient Thracian king.

An ancient fortified mound raised over the millennia from settlements built one on top of the other.

The vertical-axis windmills of ancient Persia have been grinding flour for 1,000 years and counting.

A midnight snack that lights up the night.

The mouldering remains of a disgraced British children's icon are hidden in the brush of a public park.

The fountains of the U.S. Navy Memorial are annually salted with water from the Seven Seas as part of a nautical ritual.

The longest non-mortared wall in the country is one man's tribute to his displaced Yuchi ancestor's five-year journey to her homeland.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

This picturesque archeological site looks like it was pulled straight from a fantasy novel.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.