Places tristanpollock Wants to Go

One of the few guarded stops along the great spice route.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

The once great capital of Egypt now crumbles forward as evocative ruins.

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

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

Hundreds of thousands of ancient documents offer a unique glimpse into Jewish life in Cairo.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

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

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

The forgotten mummies of Dakhla oasis.

The city-sized home palace of one of ancient Egypt's most powerful rulers gives us a rare look into the lives of the epoch's rulers.

Ancient Egyptian relief, claimed to depict an electrical light.

A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.

The enigmatic and seldom visited ruins of a Mayan city-state.

A hidden treasure of an abandoned city lies deep in the jungles of Campeche, Mexico.

The oldest continually used church in Minneapolis also sells great meat pies.

A Perpetually Under construction Park.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

The jewel of western Mexico's archaeological legacy is this tiered circular pyramid now covered in grass.

An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.

66,000 pieces of art, donated by one of the world's richest men.

High atop a Mexican rainforest mountain, this ancient pyramid once drew pilgrims countries away.