Places sandyandalice Wants to Go

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

An abandoned 17th-century baroque hunting lodge with a wonderfully strange architectural plan.

A massive marble foot is tucked away in a small alley near the Pantheon.

In the early Roman Empire, people deemed traitors and criminals were tossed to their deaths from this rock.

This gallery commissioned by Cardinal Spada is known for its magnificent optical illusion.

St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.

The ruins of the largest gladiatorial school in Rome are largely hidden under modern streets.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

The remains of this 2nd-century Roman temple are incorporated into a modern building.

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.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

This hidden alley near the location of Rome's first theater was the site of a curious miracle.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

Largest necropolis in the Mediterranean.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

Hidden within this iconic mountain are a set of World War II bunkers once used by German forces.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

An unusual bed & breakfast made of papercrete.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.