Places fredlhote Wants to Go

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

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

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

Before the more famous Royal Palace of Caserta, the king of Naples first commissioned this overlooked residence.

This archaeological museum in an 18th-century mansion showcases the country’s finest examples of pre-Columbian ceramics.

Cathedral carved out of salt, located a mile below the Earth's surface.

This picturesque mansion has gone from opulent ruin to nature museum.

Every Sunday, Bogotá turns 75 miles of its city streets into a bicycle superhighway.

At the site of a graffiti artist's murder, fellow artists gather to pay homage.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

A glass display case holds the document that ended the Second World War—which one person signed on the wrong line.

This WWII plane died a quiet death, and is now a garden eel playground.

The last standing piece of a famous Honolulu landmark.

A museum dedicated to the history of sugar cultivation on Réunion island.

Fears of Satanic worshippers swirl around five Celtic-inspired megaliths.

This library is a reader's paradise and a plant lover's dream.

This statue celebrating early Hollywood is largely forgotten, while its twin replica at Walt Disney World has become an icon.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

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

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.