Places bertshetler Wants to Go

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

Celebrating the history of whiskey production during New Zealand's era of prohibition.

The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.

The remains of a 1st-century aristocratic Roman town house featuring beautiful well-preserved mosaics.

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

A tribute to the "toughest woman on the Texas frontier," who survived a famous battle and five husbands.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.

This massive fiberglass Gulliver turns every visitor into a Lilliputian.

The odd cement nubs littering this Spanish square are actually the entrances to a series of buried silos.

Beautiful tiles decorate many of the town's surfaces and stand testimony to its glorious artistic history.

This church, better known for its weeping portrait of the Virgin Mary, also houses the world's oldest existing piece of taxidermy.

The highest waterfall in Italy is only "turned on" five times a year.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

The wreckage of an old coastal trading vessel is only visible at low tide.

All that remains of the fishing-vessel-turned-warship is its weathered hull.

Dynastic Home of the De Piro Family.

The medieval home is still engraved with the symbol of the profession, an eye flanked by two axes.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.