Places diffendale Wants to Go

A 17th-century doorway in a small Sabine village is a portal into the mysteries of alchemy.

The most southern point you can drive to in the Western Hemisphere.

The only pub in the world surrounded by an ancient stone circle.

A medieval, mosaic-lined baptistry built by a heretical Christian sect.

Psychoanalyst Carl Jung reported a paranormal experience after visiting this mosaic-lined Roman baptistry.

An incredible mosaic-lined monument said to have held the remains of an ancient Roman empress.

This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.

A 2,000-year-old engineering wonder hides beneath an Italian town.

Classical ruins that remember ancient Rome's presence in Africa.

This pair of running lions engraved on animal bone is one of the earliest artistic depictions of big cats.

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

The discovery of these rare, ancient artifacts led to the creation of a new museum.

A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

This Gothic castle-like portal is a testament to the amazing craftsmanship of the navvies who built the railway tunnel.

The remains of an ancient Roman city are hidden underneath Bologna's beautiful public library.

Scotland still bears an enormous scar of its Roman past.

Rare remnants of the brick-domed ovens birthed in the Durham coalfield during the Industrial Revolution.

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

The construction of a new church near Venosa was started in the 11th century, but never finished.

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

A single column facing the sea is all that's left of one of the most important temples of Magna Graecia.

An abandoned bell tower in the middle of nowhere is the last testimony of a forgotten medieval village.

A small Byzantine church lost in the middle of the mountains of southern Italy.