coolest real world locale waiting for use(add yours!)

[KidCthulhu]

There's a beautiful set of monasteries in Meteora, Greece, set on a flat mountain top.

Zhure, I think Neil Gaimen used these monastaries for the priesthood of Orpheus, in Sandman. I wondered at the time if he was making them up, but your picture looks just like the book.

 

[Thorntangle]

Mont Saint Michel
http://www.pitt.edu/~medart/menufrance/msmgen.html

 

[blargney]

Mont Saint Michel

Those pictures make me think of the Arab-ish city in the Narnia novel, A Boy and His Horse.

 

[Nareau]

The tunnels under Moscow:
http://www.bullatomsci.org/issues/1997/mj97/mj97ilnitsky.html

There's enough here for an entire d20 modern campaign.

Spider

 

[der_kluge]

(as posted in a recent thread...)

Machu Picchu

 

[Piratecat]

The Richat structure in the sahara Desert. Nope, it's NOT a crater!

 

[der_kluge]

The Stone Forest in China.

Stone Forest

 

[dogoftheunderworld]

Walpi Village (Hopi village on First Mesa, Arizona)

LINK

 

[dogoftheunderworld]

"WhiteHouse" Ruins (Canyon de Chelly, AZ)

LINK

 

[Hand of Evil]

Asian Ruins - Don't know where I found this one but saved the pic.