Places ruthi Wants to Go

A journey through every aspect of the human body.

One of the world's largest collections of pharmaceutical artifacts.

An unassuming Swiss institution houses Europe's largest toy museum.

The smallest museum in Basel, Switzerland, is a two-foot-by-two-foot window in the door of a 600-year-old house.

The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.

An unexpected treasure trove of military oddities, Turkish interior design, and North Korean art.

Located near Cairo's El Korba district, the abandoned mansion continues to inspire mystery and rumor throughout the city.

A strange aquarium with stuffed fish, and almost no water for them to swim in.

Part shoe store, part sociopolitical art gallery, part zoo.

Hidden away in a back alley, this Art Nouveau cafe has been in business since 1882.

These numerous Israeli caves were dug out over hundreds years for reasons ranging from hideouts to burial sites.

Land that belongs to no nation.

This legendary roadside attraction feels like a bizarre mirage, 101 kilometers outside the resort city of Eilat.

This tree was extinct for a thousand years before sprouting again from a 2,000-year-old seed.

Squeezing inside this deep, narrow canyon reveals a festival of desert colors.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

Underwater restaurant at the coral reefs of Eilat.

Brightly painted boulders scattered throughout the Sinai Desert.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

The wreck of a World War II cargo ship has become an unintentional time capsule at the bottom of the Red Sea.

A massive work of modern art that appears to be a crop circle in the middle of the desert.

Enjoy a brandy old fashioned with this petrified pet in a bar devoted to the local press.

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

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.