Places solarconstant Wants to Go

First founded in 1472, this is the oldest bank in the world. Its history may explain why we call financial institutions "banks."

This camera store in Milan holds one of Europe’s largest collections of luxury-antique cameras.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

The only monument in Slovenia celebrating the famous writer, who stayed there for one night entirely by mistake.

This cutting edge museum details the history of skiing, from its ancient origins to its status as a sport.

Nestled near the mountains of western Canada resides this behemoth earth mover.

Huge spherical rocks in the middle of the prairie.

The history of West London’s water supply.

The site of the little-known Pennsylvania battle that sparked the Seven Years' War.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Step inside an ancient beehive tomb built for a mysterious cult hero.

The world’s oldest boat lift is also known in the United Kingdom as the "Cathedral of the Canals" and one of the "Seven Wonders of the Waterways."

One of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings, built between 1886 and 1890 for the industrialist Eusebi Güell.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

After sitting abandoned for decades, this historic mine is now the only publicly accessible chalk room and pillar mine in North America.

One of the best-preserved medieval streets in Europe.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

A unique look into the bowels of a century-old funicular.

This early pioneer landmark is one of the oldest buildings in this part of Kansas and one of the few Dutch mills ever built in the state.