Places andreacall Wants to Go

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

This vintage car parts store is also a museum devoted to a squat little gem of automotive history.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

What looks like a link in Gondor's early warning system is actually a centuries-old Italian fortress.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

A gorgeous medieval library where the books are kept in chains.

This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.

David Sedaris called it "The greatest shop in the world."

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.