Places Antlerpunch Wants to Go

Commonly acknowledged as the only public monument to the Devil himself.

A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.

Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.

Barcelona's historic 19th-century sewers, whose foundations were laid in medieval times, are open to the public for exploring.

Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.

The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.