Places joanicinapoli Wants to Go

Catalonia Tradition: Beating the hollow Christmas log until it defecates in your fireplace.

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.

Victorian-era Egyptomania left its mark on this Nashville landmark.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.

This defunct, fortress-like prison has been the setting for several movies.

Dinosaurs invade a suburban Nashville neighborhood.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

But did the famous feminist and abolitionist ever really say those iconic four words?

The ruins of the suspension bridge hang over Kingsbury Run as a ghost of racial prejudice.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.

This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

One of Antoni Gaudí's least-visited works, an homage to Catalan patrimony that mixes neo-Gothic with Modernista forms.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.