Places tsrzad Wants to Go

These biodiverse university gardens form a green oasis amid the urban chaos of Mexico City.

Mexico City's largest market contains a Willy Wonka-esque wonderland.

These haunting ruins of a 700-year-old Prehispanic city have witnessed centuries of wars and massacres.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

This tiny cafe is one of the last meeting places of its kind, allowing revolutionaries a place to plot.

An often-shuddersome journey into a low-tech, robotic themepark.

From carts to cars, this leftover Roman bridge in France has managed to survive for centuries.

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

One of the largest ochre quarries in the world, hidden in a limestone landscape.

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

Revitalization efforts converted a former U.S. military heliport into a sprawling urban park.

One of the most controversial statues in Romania is an emperor with no clothes.

This Romanian village may have been drowned, but it is long from forgotten.

Religious structure known for its sculpted details.

This 11th-century structure is one of the oldest churches in Romania.

Once the legendary capital of the Dacian Kingdom, this city has been reduced to mere ruins.

Packed to the ceiling with antique taxidermy and hunting arms.

Climbing to the top of the cathedral's bell tower offers sweeping views of these medieval ruins.

This hauntingly beautiful cemetery outside a medieval citadel is full of winding paths and ivy-covered graves.

This eccentric folly house was designed by Romanian thinker Bogdan-Petriceicu Hasdeu, with a helping hand from his deceased daughter's spirit.

The growing stones of Romania.

A spooky spot along the road where things mysteriously seem to move uphill by themselves.