Places ciffergan Wants to Go

These strange carved boulders in a forested canyon resemble tiny stone villages.

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

Happen to come across a dead eagle? Send it to America's official dead eagle warehouse.

Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

One of ancient Etruria's most spectacular archaeological sites with impressive necropolises and rugged landscape.

This caldera was once associated with the Etruscan god of the underworld.

This small church was constructed over the ruins of three temples dating to the Roman Republic.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

Its interior is adorned with some of the best examples of early Christian mosaics.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

Legend has it that this bronze orb, which sat atop an ancient Egyptian obelisk, once held the ashes of Julius Caesar.

An unremarkable wooden wheel built into the side of one of Rome's oldest hospitals was part of a policy to reduce infant exposure.

This statue is the only female representation of Rome's "talking statues."

A massive marble foot is tucked away in a small alley near the Pantheon.

A monumental fountain in Rome features a large statue of Moses that has been criticized for centuries.

A statue representing a lost Roman profession that was vandalized for centuries.

An 18th-century post box used to alert the church of sick and ailing foreign pilgrims.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

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

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.