Places riche103 Wants to Go

One of the largest barracks of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's military is now an abandoned ruin.

These ruins reveal the remarkably intact layout of a Roman marketplace.

The remains of an entire Roman city can be explored in this interactive museum.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

Hidden in the shadow of a rocky fortress is one concubine’s long-forgotten legacy.

An exceptional assortment of fossils recovered from private collections.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

These mysterious 1,000-year-old walls have revealed little about their past.

Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.

Volcanic rocks ground down into sand make this Spanish beach as black as night.

Stone slabs along the coast warn of Japan's tsunami-ravaged past, often marking the highest point of a wave's reach.

This beautiful arched gate is all that remains of the fortress the ancient mountaintop town of Amadiya once was.

Ancient rock-cut tomb? Definitely. That of a great Median king? Unlikely.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

More than 100 monumental tombs carved into rock are preserved at this ancient Nabataean site in the Arabian Desert.

Within the Saudi Arabian desert lies a 2,000-year-old ghost town made of stone and mud.

The palace of the King of Kings, burned by Alexander the Great.

The ancient necropolis houses the immense rock-cut tombs of four Persian kings.

Described as "the world's most blinging pool."

This Tibetan monastery has survived multiple attacks and is also a sky burial site.

A Zoroastrian funerary tower where excarnation rituals are carried out is threatened by the area's dwindling vulture population.