Places claireromama Wants to Go

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

A posthumous honor at the iconic game show host's former high school.

One of the last socialist halls still standing in the United States.

A once celebrated industrial wonder now lurks in a quiet corner of Flathead Lake.

The famous 102-year-old circus elephant was struck and killed by lightning.

A small Montana town commemorates the dog who waited at the train station every day for his owner to return.

A classic carnival ride that was carved to be untouchable.

Touch an actual dinosaur bone at this eclectic trove of Rocky Mountain treasures.

"Polynesia on the Plains."

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

Some say this medieval church is where the poet Dante married his wife and also met the love of his life.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

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

The middle finger of modernity.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

A popular legend claims that the famous pizza was invented at a restaurant in this alley.