Places fiamma2 Wants to Go

The parking lot of a northern Virginia shopping center is host to a monument to Korea’s greatest naval commander, to include a scale model replica of the Turtle Boat he made famous.

This local mascot has been a presence in the area since the 1960s.

This monument traces the segregation line that inspired the first rural branch of the NAACP.

Massive installation of Europe's negative stereotypes.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

These figures float and flutter in this fountain crafted by famed Swedish sculptor Carl Milles.

A small brick parlor house and artist's studio located in the wilderness is surrounded by imposing suburban palaces.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

Legend has it this spring formed at the spot where a medieval Swedish king was killed.

Finally reunited, the three effigies now stand in a museum courtyard.

The discovery of an old wall led to the creation of this fascinating museum about the city in the Middle Ages.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

Over time, this castle grew to encompass the entire island.

Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.