Places vijayhm Wants to Go

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Venice's island of the dead.

A modern tower, symbolizing the legend of a golden egg on top of the tree of life.

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

Nicknamed Kazakhstan's Grand Canyon, this natural wonder lies east of Almaty near the Chinese border.

In Kazakhstan, a colorful cathedral with many lives once survived the most powerful earthquake in the region.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

A brilliant turquoise lake in the mountains.

An eccentric dictator's take on a Turkmen version of Disneyland.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

This harsh mountain path was built as a strange attempt to improve the health of Turkmen citizens.

A memorial to the thousands of Turkmen soldiers and civilians who died in a bloody 1881 battle.

Few people have ever heard of, let alone visited, one of Turkmenistan’s most impressive natural attractions.

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

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

An exquisite example of Uyghur Islamic architecture.

Natives of this mud-brick desert village use an ancient irrigation system to grow sweet, seedless grapes.

The ancient remains of this natural fortress can still be found along the Silk Road looking surprisingly preserved.

This weekly market in the remote oasis city of Hotan still has the atmosphere of the old Silk Road.

This Tibetan monastery has survived multiple attacks and is also a sky burial site.

Explore this massive series of 45 caves and over 51,000 sculptures carved from cliffsides in China.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.