Places mikeswoodcraft Wants to Go

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

For one of Rome’s finest renditions of cacio e pepe, head straight to this osteria.

The only remaining arch of the oldest stone bridge in Rome stands in the middle of the Tiber.

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

A magnificent waterfall is also home to the remains of a Roman hydraulic engineering system.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

A museum tracing the origins & modern day uses of the classic Scottish tartan, particularly the kilt.

Visit the site where the original Krispy Kreme doughnut was made back in 1937.

An Outer Banks museum devoted to the thousands of shipwrecks resting off North Carolina’s coast.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

The world's first aircraft factory has been hiding inside an automobile plant for almost 80 years.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.

These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.

Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age.

A shop for all your magical needs and notions.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Climb this overlooked gem's spiral staircase and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views of Glasgow.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.