Places rmricks Wants to Go

Stumbling upon this whimsical wooded garden is like stepping into an enchanted forest full of philosophical musings.

This network of roads is one of the most unique Etruscan creations ever discovered.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

Florence’s archaeological museum displays an ordinary stool that once shattered one of its most prized artifacts.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

The middle finger of modernity.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

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

Leonardo da Vinci was one of many to find inspiration in this unique, rocky landscape in Tuscany.

For many years, the river that Julius Caesar led his army across into Italy was lost until re-identified.

This natural gas vent certainly earns its name as the smallest volcano in Italy.

A gorgeous medieval library where the books are kept in chains.

The oldest civic library in Italy can trace its foundation back to 1619.

This mighty white oak in Bethesda survived both the American Revolution and the construction of Washington D.C.'s metro red line.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

This historic spot was where America's involvement in the Vietnam War officially came to an end.

A whimsical brother of the nearby Fallen Angel statue takes the falling part quite literally.

The only urban monument in the world designed by the great surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.