Places webanzi Wants to Go

This 3,800-year-old site contains markers used to study the movement of the sun and moon and create a lunar calendar.

Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.

The oldest ruins at this castle overlooking Georgia's Terek River Valley date back to the 10th century.

Small church on top of a huge rock column.

Underground monastery and fortress.

Rock-hewn monastery complex with hundreds of cave structures tucked away into the mountainside.

Monks in the empyreal Alazani River valley have preserved their 1,000-year-old winemaking tradition.

The ruins of a medieval monastery built on a perilous slope.

This medieval manuscript collection has some of the most obscure and ancient texts in the world.

This little medieval church hidden in the center of Yerevan was lost and rediscovered—twice.

Hundreds of intricately carved Armenian stone crosses can be found within this huge cemetery.

This ancient monastery complex was transformed from an island to a peninsula when the lake was partially drained.

This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

Remnants of successive wars and Muslim colonialism in the 11th century.

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

The observation point offers spectacular views of the ruins of an ancient Armenian capital.

This ancient abandoned church in a remote part of Turkey is in danger of falling over.

Natural rock formation, or biblical artifact that saved Earth's wildlife two by two?

Standing proud atop a Turkish bluff, this Ottoman palace has retained its grandeur despite being abandoned for centuries.

An ancient church on a tiny island covered in stone bible stories has controversially been turned into a museum.

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.

One of the oldest and largest castles in the world.

Amid the rubble of Aleppo's Old Quarter, part of a historic market has been restored and re-opened.

What is left of the pillar of Saint Simeon, the voluntary martyr who climbed the column to give his sermons, remaining perched there for thirty-seven years.