Verona, Italy
Juliet's Balcony
Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Verona, Italy
Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.
Rome, Italy
Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.
Ashburn, Georgia
A massive tribute to this small county's top agricultural product.
Iceland
Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.
Segovia, Spain
One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'
Brooklyn, New York
The mass grave of a heroic Revolutionary War regiment sits below an empty lot near the Gowanus Canal.
Hawaii
This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.
Cawker City, Kansas
It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.
Iceland
This black church sits alone among a field of lava rock.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.
Iceland
Three million year old fossils are exposed for all to see on this Icelandic shore.
Iceland
The oldest hall in Iceland was written of in the Sagas and features a centuries-old escape tunnel.
Iceland
The oldest church in Iceland is one of the few to feature ornate decoration.
New York, New York
There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.
Newport Beach, California
One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.
Iceland
The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.
Iceland
This mountain fissure hides a secret path to a secluded mossy grotto within the rock itself.
Sacramento, California
A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.
Truckee, California
Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.
London, England
A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.
Moscow, Russia
Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.