Places yaz999 Wants to Go

A beautiful opera house in the heart of Amazonia has recently restarted performances after a 90-year hiatus.

From 135 feet high riders plunge down the world's tallest freestanding body slide at 65 mph.

The massive gardens and office of a Brazilian sculptor.

Deep below the dry landscape of Bahia, a cave with intense blue water to float in.

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

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.

Half of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's ashes were buried in Armenia.

Huge stairway leads to this massive gallery.

Despite producing just a handful of movies, a brave and lyrical filmmaker has an entire museum dedicated to him.

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

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

This often-missed monastery, set in a scenic mountain landscape, features unique frescoes, fortifications and legends.

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

She asked for a potato cellar and over the next 23 years he gave her a network of holy caves.

The most visited pilgrimage site in Armenia once held a saint in a pit for 13 years.

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

A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.

This historic hotel preserves many treasures from its heyday hosting passengers on the Orient Express.

Homesick Syrian refugees head to this restaurant for a taste of Damascus.

Taking the subway here means doing so over a bridge located in the middle of an estuary.

One of the newest mosques in a city filled with thousands.

A surprising and unconventional mosque hidden in the subsoil of Istanbul.