Anacapri, Italy
Grotta Azzurra (Blue Grotto)
The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Anacapri, Italy
The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.
Ottrott, France
An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.
Pula, Croatia
Island wonderland for communist autocrats.
Centerport, New York
An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.
Rome, Italy
The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.
Oslo, Norway
Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.
Plitvička Jezera, Croatia
A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.
Monte di Cuma, Italy
Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.
Valparaiso, Chile
Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.
Chiusdino, Italy
This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.
Kirnitzschtal, Germany
A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
London, England
A student driver's nightmare.
Cerne Abbas, England
Giant naked man on a hillside.
Moscow, Russia
The tallest hotel in Europe.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Seaside, Oregon
Where Nor'easters go to die.
Flagstaff, Arizona
This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.
Falkirk, Scotland
Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.
Lee Vining, California
Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.
Genoa, Italy
A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.
Garden Grove, California
Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.
Abhaneri, India
Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.
Moscow, Russia
Former headquarters of the KGB.