Places Vic Tanner Wants to Go

Once described as the "Eagle's Nest," this ruined ancient city rests on a remote mountaintop.

Naturally protected city carved from a rock face.

This ancient subterranean megalopolis is known for the hot oil traps that were installed above each of its entrances.

Live a night as a Byzantine King, with a minibar and private jacuzzi.

While not Turkey's deepest underground city, this subterranean redoubt is the largest.

The deepest underground city in Turkey was designed to protect 20,000 people behind massive stone doors.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

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

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.