Places pattyannish Wants to Go

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

Dinosaurs invade a suburban Nashville neighborhood.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

An unusual "skull with ears" sits in the crypt of this small church tucked away at the end of a narrow alley.

Does this church in Naples hold the true tomb of Vlad the Impaler, the notoriously cruel figure who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula?

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

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

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

More than 450 years ago, an Italian nun became the first woman to paint the iconic subject.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

The smaller of the three towers of San Marino is a former prison inaccessible from the ground level.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

One of the most well-preserved castles in Italy also contains a rare medieval example of a port fortification.

An Italian geologic wonder that served as the inspiration for the landscape of Dante's hell.

Explorable physical and digital art installation, hidden in the mountains.

Photographs of the faces of the town's dead cover the walls of this small Italian church.