Places tomak Wants to Go

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

The relics of one of Jesus' 12 apostles are enshrined in this Italian Basilica.

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

What looks like a link in Gondor's early warning system is actually a centuries-old Italian fortress.

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

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

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

American soldiers discovered Europe's best one-liner at the end of World War II.