Places biancac Wants to Go

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

Daily lunch spot for many of Washington, D.C.'s cab drivers.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

A hidden workshop for creating and restoring Papal mosaic masterpieces.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

Rome's first modern graffito is all that is left of a peaceful protest from the 1970s.

An 18th century fountain and two columns are all that remains of Rome's forgotten river harbor.

Remnants of a 4th-century church with vivid medieval frescoes and ancient sarcophagi hide beneath this old basilica.

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

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

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

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

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.