Places tommimeckley2 Wants to Go

This former monument to an invented Iraqi victory was turned into a military camp during the subsequent invasion.

The surviving pieces of an ancient aqueduct that may have fed into the lost Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

Ancient rock-cut tomb? Definitely. That of a great Median king? Unlikely.

Giant reed houses made in the marshes of Southern Iraq.

A giant bisected onion dome remembers the Iraqis who died in the Iran-Iraq War.

A boiling wellspring flowing with natural gas burns in a continual blaze.

A shrine on the shores of the Tigris.

This beautiful arched gate is all that remains of the fortress the ancient mountaintop town of Amadiya once was.

A 605-page Quran penned in the blood of a dictator is locked away in a mosque.

A 2200 year old vessel may have been able to keep a charge.

An ancient fortified mound raised over the millennia from settlements built one on top of the other.

9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.

The sacred shrine of the Yazidis.

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.

This steamship has been beautifully rusting off the coast of an Iranian island since the 1960s.

Long before air conditioning, Persian architects found an ingenious way to cool off.

This ancient fortress in Iran was once the oldest and largest treasury in the world.

This circular Iranian jail was once a political prison run by the country's secret police.

This lake in northwest Iran has started turning from green to red more frequently than scientists are comfortable with.

A historic trade hub teeming with gorgeous architecture, colorful goods, and vibrant designs.

The tower in this 1,000-year-old mud-brick village seems to vibrate for no apparent reason.

Iranian tombstones shaped like male and female sexual organs.

Named after a legendary garden called Eram in southern Arabia, built by order of Shaddad, an Arab king who wanted to compete with Paradise.

A dreamy mausoleum honors Persia's most famous poet.