Places soimlostagain Wants to Go

A stunning medieval castle houses this eclectic, interactive tribute to all things wine.

These stairs were built to accommodate royals mounted on elephants.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

One of the world's largest pyramids stands within El Mirador, the "lost city of the Maya."

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

The half-mile long structure is so impressive, it even shows up on satellite images.

Hauntingly beautiful totem poles left by the Haida.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

The highest tropical mountain range in the world is in Central Peru, home to a vast array of exotic and quirky plants and animals.

Bermuda triangle lighthouse, site of mysterious disappearances, left to crumble into the Atlantic.

An ancient burial ground believed to have been used for ritual sacrifice.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

The complex has been abandoned since the Croatian War of Independence, barring a stint as a set for 'Game of Thrones.'

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.