Places weatherboy Wants to Go

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

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

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

Wondrous stalactites house thousands of bats in these African caves.

The historic cave is both a symbol of superstition and black magic and inspired one of the early Christian converts in Botswana.

The only electricity pylon built over two lanes of traffic.

A museum in Hokkaido is housed in a former high school. On its grounds a marker shares the awakening of a man who longs to be reunited with his soulmate in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

A bovine sumo match in which both bulls live to fight another day.

Constructed thousands of years ago, these stone circles offer incredible insight into the lives of the people who built them.

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

The world's largest radiation field is probably our best bet for irradiated vegetable superheroes.

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.