Places acrig Wants to Go

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

A big museum full of little worlds.

Measuring approximately 200 feet long, Swampy is the world's largest alligator-shaped building.

Huge stairway leads to this massive gallery.

A ghost town that was wiped out by a flood in 1940.

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

A doctor had this large tub carved into rocks to facilitate easier seawater bathing.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

Grand opera on a miniature scale.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

This ancient Roman arch misled treasure hunters for centuries.

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.

Largest necropolis in the Mediterranean.

Caligula's colossal pleasure ships, discovered by Mussolini only to be lost in flames.

This incredible second-century sculpture depicts a trio of gods worshipped by the ancient Romans.

This ancient trail climbs the mountain where a Latin League cult worshipped Jupiter, its main deity.

Roman-era ships unearthed...

A secret hatch containing two parchments was discovered in this statue over 40 years after its installation.

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.

Known for centuries as the famous Roman emperor's burial place, this monument is actually something else.