Vernazza, Italy
Cinque Terre
Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Vernazza, Italy
Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.
Chislehurst, England
Shakespeare, David Bowie, Dr. Who, the Saxons, Druids and Romans are all claimed to have all made their mark on these massive man made tunnels.
Dublin, Ireland
One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.
Washington, D.C.
A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.
Wieliczka, Poland
An underground city of salt.
Istanbul, Turkey
A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.
Chichen Itza, Mexico
Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.
London, England
This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.
Cheddar, England
Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.
Silver Spring, Maryland
An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.
Kayenta, Arizona
Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.
Denizli, Turkey
Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.
Taos, New Mexico
A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.
McLean, Virginia
A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.
Berlin, Germany
A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.
Chicago, Illinois
A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.
Sintra, Portugal
This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.
Giethoorn, Netherlands
This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.
Chester, England
Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Baltimore, Maryland
This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.
Venice, Italy
As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.
New York, New York
The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.
Pompeii, Italy
The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.