Places Olivemaniac Wants to Go

The Pickle Guys stand as a salt-stained holdout of the Lower East Side’s historic pushcart culture.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

A beautiful and original museum dedicated to art of the 1930s in France and beyond.

A whimsical Renaissance fountain sculpture from Florence, world-renowned for defying convention.

The last remaining houses of a bygone world immortalized by John Steinbeck in his novel “Cannery Row.”

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

A remarkable collection of the machines which this industrial city was dependent upon for both commerce and domestic life.

An East German time capsule caters to nostalgic Germans and curious tourists.

Rest stops along this pathway offer some of the best views of the Acropolis of Athens.

For centuries, one side of this basilica has integrated local archaeological finds.

Across Valencia lie the remains of three ancient fortifications built centuries apart: a Roman enclosure, an Islamic expansion, and a medieval Christian wall.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

See one of the earliest depictions of a Christian ceremony – with a woman at the center!

This statue standing near Sweden's southernmost point was based on the grandmother of a modern movie star.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

This striking sculpture was created in memory of enslaved people, acknowledging that the city of Bordeaux was France’s second-largest slave-trade port.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

Yorkshire’s largest boulder has a storied past associated with Druids and witches.

An unexpected mix of medieval buildings and modern street art.

One of Warsaw's coolest malls was once a center for anti-Nazi resistance activity.

A symbolic cemetery in a suburban square marks the birthplace of Poland's WWII resistance movement.

A curious memorial to the Berlin Wall, German division, the war, and those who died at the wall.

This sanctuary became synonymous with fear and terror in the ancient world.