Places gherardini Wants to Go

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

Grown from a seed that went to the moon!

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

An improbable creek near Death Valley, not far from the oldest surviving Euro-American structure in the Mojave Desert.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

Bioluminescence in the reefs of the Maldives causes the sea to glow like a starry night sky.

Thousands of narrow alleyways in an ancient medieval city make up what's believed to be the world's largest car-free urban zone.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.