Places tobbinator Wants to Go

Over 80,000 carved wood blocks make up one of the world's oldest intact Buddhist canons.

Landbridge created by the South Korean version of Moses.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

An 18-meter-long sarcophagus of a constantly growing dead prophet.

Final palace complex of the last of 29 Kokand rulers.

These "50 Fortresses" have been unearthed in the ancient oasis of Khwarezm.

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

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.

The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.

Once a bustling fishing port, this semi-ghost town is now more than 90 miles away from the shore.

The largest dam in the world and the site of a potential disaster.

Rusting railcars and locomotive equipment fill this Ethiopian train graveyard.

Ethiopian standing stones featuring remarkably preserved carvings of swords and people.

Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.

An ancient Ethiopian cave church is endangered by the simple building of a road.

An ocean in the making, in the Ethiopian desert.

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.

Sex curse discovered on ancient tablet in Cyprus.

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.

This former Cyprus flight hub is now a crumbling, abandoned ghost complex.