Places kimrad Wants to Go

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

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

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

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

Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.

On top of a resort town as old as the Bronze Age sits an incredible war memorial statue overlooking the beaches below.

This exclusive resort has completely covered a tiny Balkan island in a 5-star warren of guest rooms.

One of the world's oldest olive trees, thought to be over 2,000 years old.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.