Places Shannon Moore Shepherd Wants to Go

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

This ancient trail climbs the mountain where a Latin League cult worshipped Jupiter, its main deity.

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

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

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

The Louisiana sandwich shop that served Bonnie and Clyde's last meal is a museum that chronicles the criminal couple and honors the Bienville Parish lawmen who stopped their crime spree in an ambush.

The saddest little diner in New York.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.