Places Mike Walker Wants to Go

This unique museum cafeteria showcases the history and regional diversity of African American cuisine.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in the ruins of this ancient monastic community.

A small thermal park among the mountains of Southern Italy features a surprising piece of modern art.

A fossil of a 30 million-year-old fish is unexpectedly hidden thousands of feet above sea level.

Constructed during the 1960s, this bridge is still the highest in Italy.

Crossing this suspension bridge feels like walking through the sky, a fitting tribute to the head of the Apollo program.

A narrow opening between the mountains of the Amalfi Coast creates a scenic hidden beach.

A limestone grotto where daylight filters in from below and turns the water a beautiful turquoise. Also home to a small underwater nativity scene.

Amalfi's pre-industrial history is slowly being engulfed by the lush vegetation of the Ferriere Valley.

Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.