Places bertshetler Wants to Go

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, a small sign basically begs for a high-five.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

This mysterious, medieval cathedral remains unbuilt but fiercely protected.

This colossal ancient sculpture of the monstrous Aztec rain god has a literally stormy history.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Enchanting cave with a river crashing through the roof.

This city park wants you to take your shoes off.

Three hundred illuminated pillars form an “artificial forest” in Medellín.

A lush indoor jungle fills this bustling Madrid transportation hub.

One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

This park on the outskirts of Rome boasts two ancient Roman aqueducts and a medieval tower.

This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.

An abandoned 17th-century baroque hunting lodge with a wonderfully strange architectural plan.

The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

This eccentric folly house was designed by Romanian thinker Bogdan-Petriceicu Hasdeu, with a helping hand from his deceased daughter's spirit.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

A celebration of all things tacky, garish, and bizarrely creative in the Romanian capital.

One of the most controversial statues in Romania is an emperor with no clothes.