Places chrissyml Wants to Go

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

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

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

The middle finger of modernity.

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

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

Kentucky's longest operating jail is now a spooky spot to spend the night.

This Tennessee manse was built so opulent that the very utilities doomed it to fail.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

Visit the art studio of an early 20th-century painter, hidden amid the Great Smoky Mountains.

This hotel was used during the Manhattan Project to house official visitors.

A cannonball from Union forces battling John Hunt Morgan made this church a permanent home.

The longest-serving U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner was born in this humble cabin.

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

This abandoned nuclear cooling tower casts a shadow over a bucolic town.

An homage to the pointers and retrievers that have long been a hunter's best friend.

The site of the Scopes Trial contains a small exhibit dedicated to the famous case.

John Hendrix predicted the creation of the "Secret City" built as part of the Manhattan Project.