Places j501 Wants to Go

The secret room where early Bolsheviks cranked out propaganda fliers on a smuggled printing press.

Men and special assistants stand by the road to sell the day's catch in this lakeside village.

This ancient monastery complex was transformed from an island to a peninsula when the lake was partially drained.

This series of Armenian caves held the oldest brain, shoe, and winery in the world.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

The world's longest nonstop reversible cable car soars through spectacular scenery to the medieval Tatev Monastery.

In the foothills of the lesser Caucasus, a centuries-old fortress still stands.

The bridges portrayed on EU currency aren't fictional anymore.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Browse through a century of this principality's first popular export.

This millstone commemorates a gruesome tale that may have been the source of the city's name.

Middle-earth in the middle of Switzerland.

The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.

In one of the world's smallest countries, a royal's personal winery is open to the public.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

After immigrating to Paris in the 1970s, two brothers from Laos built a grocery store empire.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

This Algerian sweet shop serves confections in an eye-popping array of hues.

Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.