Places saszito Wants to Go

A colorful and enigmatic cemetery in the middle of nowhere.

This medieval fortress is (or was till 2017) the home stadium of the football club FC Duruji Kvareli.

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.

Underground monastery and fortress.

Fortified homes of highland warriors that are still in use today.

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

Avenue of trees planted by cosmonauts before their space departures.

The last standing example of an ancient district's teatime tradition.

A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.

Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

This medieval "painted village" is famous for its geometric facades.

This 11th-century Greek monastery has renowned mosaics and relics of a brutal past.

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

A Serbian church lit by chandeliers made of weapons.

See how paper is made the old-fashioned way.

Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends.

The second-largest Jewish temple in Bulgaria was deserted after World War II, seized by the communist government and then abandoned again.

The final resting place of one of the first alleged vampires.