Key West, Florida
Hemingway's Last Penny
An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Key West, Florida
An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Key West, Florida
A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.
Key West, Florida
"We Seceded Where Others Failed."
Big Pine Key, Florida
Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.
London, England
Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.
London, England
Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.
Calistoga, California
California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.
San Francisco, California
Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.
San Francisco, California
The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.
San Francisco, California
A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.
San Francisco, California
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.
San Francisco, California
Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
Los Angeles, California
A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.
Montreal, Québec
A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.
Pompeii, Italy
Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.
Vatican City
Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.
Rome, Italy
The Pope’s secret escape route.
Rome, Italy
The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.
Florence, Italy
Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.
Pompeii, Italy
Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.
Edgartown, Massachusetts
The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.
Boston, Massachusetts
Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.