Places remcrae Wants to Go

Charnel house at the foot of Mount Sinai.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

The once great capital of Egypt now crumbles forward as evocative ruins.

This fortress sits atop a centuries-old well system.

Giant pigeon houses packed into city streets in Egypt.

The remains of this ancient fortress atop a manmade hill look as though they were built into a volcano.

The world's oldest map of the holy land gives us a fragmented glimpse of the layout of biblical nations.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

An ancient tunnel in Jerusalem built to redirect water in the event of a siege is one of history’s great architectural innovations.

A bathhouse from the second Islamic Caliphate decorated with frescoes of constellations, pleasure gardens, and naked ladies.

The most gigantic, swoony, intimidating trio of fingers in all of antiquity.

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

This ancient stone necropolis is in danger of disappearing.

A mysterious ancient cemetery with Roman sarcophagi and Lycian inscriptions.

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

This archaeological site was the center of the extinct Yarmukian culture which developed the first roads and pottery in Israel.

One of only two towns in Israel populated by Circassians, a sect of Sunni Muslims who are also devoted to Israeli military service.

Submerged ruins of a Neolithic coastal settlement, where houses, wells, graves and skeletons have been unearthed.

Ghost Town in the Demilitarized Zone of the Golan Heights.

Roman ruins, natural methane fires and a lovely beach.

Idol made by King Jeroboam for the Israelites.

Modern museum, designed for Jihadi tourists.

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

This ancient city—home to nine civilizations—is soon to be buried under 200 feet of water.