Places Roberti Wants to Go

A chimpanzee sanctuary in the Blue Ridge Mountains giving former research chimps a new chance at life.

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

Though it may look like it’s missing its outer shell, this skeletal cast-iron tower was built to withstand wind and waves.

This salad has two key ingredients: hearts of palm and green ice cream.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

This facility, now a museum, once housed and trained U.S. Army Air Force pilots who flew during the Allied invasion of Normandy.

The world's 2nd or 3rd or 4th busiest seaplane base.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

A display of torture devices used in the Spanish Inquisition and other scourges of medieval Europe.

This chapel is the site of a yearly pilgrimage that originated during the Middle Ages.

What started as three small gnomes at the base of a tree has grown into a full-blown gnome home.

An icon of the city, this chapel features an amazing dome ceiling and offers panoramic views.

This ship offers visitors the chance to spend the night aboard a former floating hospital for fishermen.

"Satisfying" is a good way to describe these beautifully aligned rows of Spanish mills.

This abandoned naval battery stood at the ready as recently as the 1980s.

Open air sculptures by an eccentric and loin-clothed hermit.

The mysterious remains of a martyred teenage saint are venerated inside a small country chapel.

Seaside ruins of a settlement that date back to the first century B.C.

This stop on the Camino de Santiago stands high above the underwater ruins of a medieval town.

Remarkably intact Roman stone fortifications have encircled this Spanish city for centuries.

This enormous censer uses a pulley system installed over 400 years ago.