Places bertshetler Wants to Go

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

Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.

The construction of a new church near Venosa was started in the 11th century, but never finished.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

This high-speed test track is popular with car manufacturers, speed freaks and orbiting astronauts.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

The steel cable lets adventurers zoom between two mountain towns at speeds of up to 75 miles per hour.

Crossing this suspension bridge feels like walking through the sky, a fitting tribute to the head of the Apollo program.

A fossil of a 30 million-year-old fish is unexpectedly hidden thousands of feet above sea level.

The oldest scientifically dated tree in Europe lives on a remote cliff.

Just saying the name of this town out loud is said to bring bad luck.

The world's oldest family-run magic shop is hidden beneath a bustling London thoroughfare.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.