Places chrissyml Wants to Go

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

This picturesque cottage was the site of Ulysses S. Grant’s final and perhaps most important campaign.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

A beautiful multicolored mound formed by the mineral deposits of the Orenda Spring.

Ancient cave tombs known as the "houses of fairies."

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

This overgrown mountain village has been abandoned for nearly a century.

This Arabesque Italian castle was built with a primitive, if ingenious, air-conditioning system.

This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.

A tree that defies gravity grows in an ancient ruin.

This amazingly preserved Doric temple was abandoned before it was ever completed.

The bright red cars take travelers through breathtaking Tuscan scenery.

One of the highest mountain passes in Europe has been ranked among the best driving roads in the world.

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.

The remains of the left arm of the levitating philosopher-saint are kept in a 13th-century Neapolitan basilica.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

A petite white lighthouse perched on the ancient core of Stromboli Volcano.

Mysterious tombstones thought to be remnants of Atlantis.

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

This medieval hilltop village was abandoned at the end of the 19th century, after existing for more than 500 years.

A beautifully well-preserved ancient Roman villa.