Places NJ220 Wants to Go

For decades, vendors have sold clothes once worn by American soldiers who stormed Italy in the 1940s.

This enormous sinkhole hides a secret world created from divine wrath.

This hermitage spanning an Italian river gorge draws pilgrims hoping to heal ailments like arthritis and migraines.

The ruins of a thousand-year-old hermitage are tucked away deep in the sloping forests of Albano Lake.

A surreal botanical garden with an even more surreal tour guide.

This crystal clear water basin feeds the Lao river and powers a hydroelectric power plant.

Six paintings reminding you that death is integral part of everyday life.

Statues portraying anatomical deformities were placed in this garden to foster ethical behavior.

The walls of this tiny Italian church are entirely covered with frescoes.

A gorgeous example of 13th-century Gothic architecture.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

These otherworldly formations were shaped over millions of years by the forces of nature.

The cluster of igloo-like domes forms the remains of an ancient burial ground.

Over the dunes of the Empty Quarter, the mysterious music of the desert.

Billed as the "largest natural flower garden in the world" this Middle Eastern show field has little competition at 45 million flowers.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

Dilapidated ruins that once treated a notorious young serial killer, currently hosting vandals, squatters, and ghost hunters.

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.

The tallest sea cliffs on the Southern Hemisphere are a climber's worst nightmare.

You can row a boat through this ancient underground reservoir.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.