Places freddoloso Wants to Go

The remains of this medieval Roman road and lookout towers dot the rugged coastline of southern Lazio.

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

Hidden in a high mountain cave, this hermitage dates back to the ninth century.

This little visited park is a treasure trove of ancient Roman ruins.

Paiwanese restaurant run by native indigenous Taiwanese singer songwriter, and home to a DIY arts-and-crafts folk garden.

An unassuming museum offers a deep dive into everything about mushrooms, from cultivation innovations to fungi that "talk."

A coastal French town said to have been visited by Jesus' disciples is a major pilgrimage center for Catholic Romanis.

A once-shattered school now preserves a visible fault line, showcasing Taiwan's traumatic 1999 earthquake.

Hidden in plain sight, a gravestone seemingly inscribed from the future stands among the cemetery’s historic tombs.

In 1977, an eccentric book lover formed a micronation for book lovers.

Only seven masters are keeping the tradition of Hong Kong’s vanishing neon signs alive.

A Berkeley sidewalk etched with 128 cast-iron poems.

For more than half a century, an enormous feline has watched over this London neighborhood.

This kinetic sculpture focuses the sounds of the city when you stand inside.

Standing 26 feet high and 13 feet in diameter, is this the world’s smallest volcano?

Order a baked Alaska at one of Hong Kong’s last surviving places slinging “soy-sauce Western.”

Sample Hong Kong’s famous “Swiss wings” at the source.

Even Michelin-starred chefs are said to get their cleavers at this century-old shop.

A Greek-inspired memorial garden to commemorate a former university president and a liberal influential intellectual

This cha chaan teng’s pineapple buns are so sought-after that they sell 5,000 a day.

This Cistercian monastery was the first in the German-speaking world

Jet fuel-powered flames lend dishes a pleasant char at one of the last of Hong Kong’s remaining streetside restaurants.

Serve yourself from the heaping carts piled with bamboo steamers at what may be Hong Kong’s oldest dim sum parlor.

Ancient, mysterious stone altars are hidden among wild woods in central Italy.