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.
A plain fortress shell hiding wall-to-wall baroque gold — and a Caravaggio
→ stjohnscocathedral.com
A full-scale Parthenon — gilded 42-foot Athena and all — in Tennessee
→ nashvilleparthenon.com
A fiber-optic river of Kool-Aid in the drink's birthplace
→ atlasobscura.com