Unique

More than the outside admits

A wander for the traveler who reads the plaque and keeps walking: three places whose ordinary setting gives away nothing about the spectacle inside — a blank Valletta fortress that erupts into wall-to-wall baroque gold around a signed Caravaggio, a full-scale Parthenon with a gilded 42-foot Athena marooned in a Nashville park, and a small Nebraska museum running a fiber-optic river of Kool-Aid.

St. John's Co-Cathedral

A plain fortress shell hiding wall-to-wall baroque gold — and a Caravaggio

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