Places monaharen Wants to Go

A quiet Sicilian village is home to a cafe that had an important role in "The Godfather."

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

A deer-headed statue that brings together a 12th-century legend and big wave surfing.

Located in the thermoelectric factory that once powered the entire city, this Portuguese museum is shockingly fascinating.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

The only visible remains of this ancient Greek underground temple is its roof protruding from the earth.

A small town lost in the mountains of southern Italy hosts the childhood home of one of the most famous saints of the 20th century.

Unscathed for almost 2,000 years, the best preserved Roman triumphal arch is in a small southern Italian city.

An abandoned quarry hides an open-air gallery of huge sculptures, some made from the rubble of 9/11.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

Skulls and skeletons are omnipresent in this church dedicated to souls trapped in purgatory.

Castle ruins of the not-so-chaste baronessa whose lovers mysteriously disappeared.

This church carved into the rocks is full of enchanting stone statues.

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

A preserved relic of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair and a center of Swedish American Culture.

Over 30 brightly painted Dala horses roam through ‘Little Sweden.’

This historic early-20th-century building still boasts some of its original features.

In the heart of Little Sweden USA, a small gallery and museum pays tribute to a Swedish-born artist who fell in love with the American landscape.

A collection of beautiful crystals shaped like freshly plucked roses.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.