Places darrelmw Wants to Go

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

This former hub for crafty philosophers was founded by a writer who died aboard the infamous RMS Lusitania.

A few iconic structures are all that remain of America’s first outdoor shopping mall.

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

The historic “pink house on the hill” is an architectural gem that now serves as a center for water conservation.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

A little barn in the middle of the city preserving Hollywood treasures since 1985.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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.

Stumbling upon this whimsical wooded garden is like stepping into an enchanted forest full of philosophical musings.

The middle finger of modernity.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

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

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

An Italian hillside ghost town.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

One of the world’s largest collections of paper memorabilia chronicles 4,000 years of papermaking.

A small pack of an ancient, hairless breed of dog once believed to guide souls through the underworld lives on its grounds.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

Walk through row upon row of manicured miniature trees at the United States' largest bonsai nursery.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

Acres of English cottage gardens, unexpectedly nestled in a Cleveland suburb.

Nestled in the heart of a Texas town is a dreamy secret garden dating back to the 1940s.