Places Gamereg Wants to Go

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

Corn-inthian columns with a uniquely American take on neoclassical architecture.

The ruins of a medieval seminary some say is the oldest university site in Scotland.

A lakeside garden in the Southern Alps full of whimsical artwork and thousands of beautiful flowers.

A vintage video game wonderland in downtown Reykjavik.

A small granite monument marks where the borders of three countries meet.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

Explore 400,000 years of humans' "battle against darkness" in this offbeat but thorough lamp museum.

An ancient fortified mound raised over the millennia from settlements built one on top of the other.

The crumbling ruins of this southern American fort have survived storms, war, and cults.

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

A 1,500-year-old, 3-story subterranean city where ancient Persians took refuge in times of war.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

An enormous playhouse designed to look like 21 stacked Lego bricks, with another 25 million colorful Legos inside.

Bolivia's needle-like rock formations.

Largest site of dinosaur footprints ever found includes more than 5,000 tracks.

Train tunnel running underneath Quebec City.

The remarkably well-preserved final resting place of a powerful ancient Thracian king.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

The now-abandoned Fascist summer colony served a dark purpose during World War II.