Places riche103 Wants to Go

Crumbling pyramids and temple ruins stand within the shadow of this sacred butte.

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.

What might be the largest completely Jewish town in the world outside of Israel now faces dwindling numbers and empty streets.

Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.

The enigmatic stone has towered over a Northern Ireland town for thousands of years.

A unique piece of graffiti offers a little slice of local history and mystery.

A place as enchanting as the journey to reach it is harrowing.

Thousands of ancient rock carvings are scattered just off the highway.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.

This abandoned nitrate town was repurposed as a dictator's prison.

This whimsical garbage disposal facility receives around 12,000 accidental tourists each year.

One of the world's largest ancient burial mounds.

This frescoed ancient burial mound is a colorful window into China’s influence in early Japan.

The original resting place of Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony's only daughter.

The Neolithic megalith was one of the first archaeological ruins protected by the British government.

A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.

An ancient neolithic tomb that only sees the sun twice a year.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

A mile-long navigable cave adorned with stalactites and stalagmites reaching up to 65 feet tall.

An outstanding and haunting glimpse of the horrors of the Great Famine of Ireland.

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

A sophisticated astronomical tower built by one of the greatest Persian scholars of the Islamic Golden Age.

This "tower of death" has acted as an observatory, a religious hub, and an executioner's lair.

This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.