Itineraries of best places to visit before taking the ultimate trip to the Great Beyond are endless, AKA bucket lists. Things to do and places to go are a very personal thing depending on what you hope to fulfill from your experience of visiting those particular places. These can range from memories, pleasure, historical and architectural wonderment, you have the whole world to choose from with "so much to do, so little time.” Here is the list of Ten Awesome Places to Visit Before You Die 1. Pompeii Settlers originally flocked to the site of the Roman port city because of its fertile soil, the product of volcanic ash from nearby Mount Vesuvius. Yet that very same volcano would erupt and doom the city of 10,000 to 20,000 inhabitants in A.D. 79. Many Europeans toured the city's ancient ruins in the decades following their initial excavations in 1748. Indeed, Pompeii became all the rage across the continent, inspiring a gaudy revival in Classical art and architectur