Places MarcSG Wants to Go

This hidden garden boasts amazing views of Lyon.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

This Corsican Neolithic site is full of pre-Roman megalithic structures that may or may not be penises.

A miniature Corsican village built out of pebbles.

This remarkable checkered church on a Corsican hilltop is fabled to have been built by angels.

A 15th-century Corsican chapel that possesses a rare Catholic monument: a "Scala Santa," or "Holy Stairs."

The city of Parma's cathedral is home to one of the greatest illusionistic frescoes of the Renaissance.

One of the most well-preserved castles in Italy also contains a rare medieval example of a port fortification.

If you ever wanted to touch a medieval mercenary’s three testicles, look no further.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

The thirteen wooden beams protruding from this historical building were once part of a hydraulic clock.

The ruins of an early-18th-century complex that could once house up to 12,000 horses.

An eerie former warehouse turned cistern turned movie set.

The oldest known university in the world is in Fez, Morocco.

Rocky Atlantic beach home to a stunning stone arch.

The oldest monument in Marrakesh and the city's only surviving example of Almoravid architecture.

This amazing oasis of art and plants is hidden on the outskirts of Marrakesh.

The remains of a magnificent medieval fortress that was the capital of a vast empire.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

Ornate lobby of a police station is decorated with colorful murals by Augusto Giacometti.

These spindly, stone-capped formations are the product of glacial deposits and thousands of years of erosion.