Places Wanderer 2202 Wants to Go

Mausoleum and Holy Seat of Antiochus I of Commagene.

A Turkish monastery tucked into a cliff wall.

Ottoman-era houses lovingly preserved.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

A mysterious ancient cemetery with Roman sarcophagi and Lycian inscriptions.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

More than 100 monumental tombs carved into rock are preserved at this ancient Nabataean site in the Arabian Desert.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

Within the Saudi Arabian desert lies a 2,000-year-old ghost town made of stone and mud.

The remains of what was, not so long ago, the world's largest city.

The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.

This mountaintop lake bubbles and steams in a perpetual boil, thanks to its direct link to the Earth's interior.

At first glance, little checkered structures on the hillside look like they house the living, not the dead.

An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

The oldest still-existing mosque in the United States sits in a remote prairie in North Dakota.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.