Places Olivemaniac Wants to Go

Despite the name, these small saltwater swimming pools have nothing to do with the Romans.

The most magical part of this Latin American and Caribbean art museum is a room covered in beautiful blue tiles from floor to ceiling.

Exploring the past, present, and future of blues music.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

At an estimated 3,800 years old, this olive tree is one of the oldest on earth.

An ancient and majestic fortress that played an integral role in Portugal's road to independence.

A crumbling ghost town on the South Dakota prairie.

A short interpretive trail about one of the first human cultures in North America.

In 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand spent his final night alive at this luxurious hotel.

One of the world’s most powerful corporations was established on a random Albuquerque street corner.

Visit a museum dedicated to the “the king of cheeses.”

Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.

A well-preserved example from a 1920s network of airmail navigation arrows sits near Interstate 15 in southern Nevada.

In this Romani neighborhood lies a museum dedicated to the culture and history of the Roma.

This imposing castle has stood for nearly a thousand years.

With a design inspired by traditional Latvian textiles, this monument honors the Latvian people who suffered under Soviet occupation.

A free museum that memorializes the deadliest river flood in American history, and the civil engineering efforts to tame the Mississippi River.

A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.

The hallowed ground of one of the worst atrocities in United States history.

A map store filled with original Cold War era Russian maps of the world.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

This demonic monument commemorates a carving destroyed in World War II.

This impressive chasm is one of the longest natural underground cavities in the world.

A lone lighthouse on the wind-swept shores of the cape.