Places Journeybears Wants to Go

A rococo room covered entirely in porcelain originally constructed for another royal residence.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Richard Luke Concanen never set foot on American soil.

The remains of the left arm of the levitating philosopher-saint are kept in a 13th-century Neapolitan basilica.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

Bangkok's take on the High Line is a park on a traffic bridge above the iconic Chao Phraya River.

Founded during the Ayutthaya era, this unique Buddhist temple remains shipshape to this day.

The bank's whimsical shape was inspired by a child’s toy.

This statue took 60 years to complete.

Isaan street food staples are in spectacular form at this no-frills institution.

"Bangkok's Green Lung," a large park on an island, feels worlds away from traffic-choked Sukhumvit Road.

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

Vintage furniture and art share space with all manner of collectibles at this quirky shop in Bangkok.

The Vatican's secret porn-festooned bathroom was painted in erotic murals by one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

Rome's first modern graffito is all that is left of a peaceful protest from the 1970s.

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.