Places chrissyml Wants to Go

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.

"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

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

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.