Rome, Italy
The Sweating Cenotaph at the Archbasilica San Giovanni in Laterano
Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Rome, Italy
Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.
Wetumpka, Alabama
One of almost 200 confirmed impact craters in the entire world, untouched for tens of millions of years.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.
Washington, D.C.
Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.
Washington, D.C.
The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.
Millinocket, Maine
This nature mural exists to protect the surrounding environment and its own canvas from destruction.
Jonesport, Maine
A memorial to an ill-fated Holy Land mission once described by Mark Twain as “a complete fiasco.”
Augusta, Maine
Located in the historic home of a newspaper publisher, this museum is dedicated to the Freedom of Speech.
Cape Elizabeth, Maine
Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.
Moscow, Maine
A collection of birdhouses await curious motorists and avian squatters.
Biddeford, Maine
A mural of a boy making a phone call connects a southern Maine community to a town in Iraq.
Portland, Maine
The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.
Bangor, Maine
This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”
Cushing, Maine
If a visit to this farmhouse feels as if you are stepping into an artistic masterpiece, you’d be right.
Norway, Maine
This 90-year-old building is home to possibly the most New Englandy social club in existence.
Bangor, Maine
Abraham Lincoln's vice president took his last breath here on July 4, 1891.
Brownville, Maine
The remains of a large iron mill that once stood in the remote woods of northern Maine.
Eastport, Maine
Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.
Monhegan, Maine
The steel hull of a wrecked tug rests on Lobster Cove on Monhegan Island’s rocky southeastern shore.
Brewer, Maine
Maine’s only official memorial to the Underground Railroad.
Ellsworth, Maine
As communication goes completely wireless, this Maine museum remembers all the wires that got us to this point.
Harpswell, Maine
An unusually designed bridge from the 1920s was built to withstand the tides and winds of Maine.
Bucksport, Maine
An unsolved murder victim's grave which may or may not contain her body.
Brunswick, Maine
This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.