Places Shiv Wants to Go

These split boulders mark equinoxes and solstices along the Seattle skyline.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

Suffocating dogs was a common spectacle in the fumes of this noxious cave.

A rococo room covered entirely in porcelain originally constructed for another royal residence.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

Italy's "New Mountain" rose from the ground in a volcanic eruption in 1538.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

This feat of German engineering is one of the only elevators in the world following a curved path.

This traffic circle in a small Swedish town is adorned with a statue of a giant potato.

Welcome to the greenest place in Greenland.

The geographic center point of the Golden State.

A large, historic railroad trestle over the Columbia River is now open for non-motorized traffic.

In the Arabian Desert, a surreal rock formation stands cut clean in half.

Open since 1912, this restaurant is one of the few left that serves chicken with lobster and other Catalan-style surf and turf staples.

Sink your spoon into a luscious crema Catalana at this former urban dairy farm.

It’s Christmas every day at Barcelona’s oldest restaurant.

An enormous boulder deposited by the Scabland floods lies in the Quincy Basin among a host of smaller boulders.

This relic is one of the last survivors of the earliest eras of the American railroad.

This medieval village clings to a cliff in southwestern France.

These 19th-century military fortifications spanning the island of Malta now form a nice countryside hiking trail.