Places Jamee Wants to Go

The abandoned ruins of a failed resort hide on this verdant, picture-perfect island.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

David Sedaris called it "The greatest shop in the world."

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

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

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

This tree was grafted from the actual tree that led Isaac Newton to ponder the theory of gravity.

One of ancient Etruria's most spectacular archaeological sites with impressive necropolises and rugged landscape.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.

This ducal residence was once home to a future Russian empress and a French king in exile.

A Serbian monument to plums.

This memorial honors a village that was destroyed during a 2015 earthquake.

A secluded, little-known temple hidden amid the dense jungle.

This abandoned gold mine found a second life as a post-apocalyptic film set.

These otherworldly formations were shaped over millions of years by the forces of nature.

The oft used Australian colloquialism "Beyond the Black Stump" is said to have originated at this location.

This small museum contains fossils from an era when Kansas was underwater.