Places jarospiggy Wants to Go

Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha spent 18 years creating these monumental paintings of Slavic history and mythology.

This network of conjoined cellars was riddled with traps and supposedly allowed the townspeople to pretend their homes were deserted.

The castle in the romantic landscape of Podyjí houses what may be Europe's largest collection of taxidermy dogs.

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

Nestled in the hills of Tuscany are gorgeous, multicolored hot springs.

A design by master architect Alvar Aalto in a small village in the Apennines near Bologna.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

This trio of reliefs—an ear, a mouth, and a pair of eyes—carved into the walls of flooded quarries is a monument to spying.

A beautiful old horse stable hosts one of the largest collections of domestic animal skeletons and taxidermy.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

Six paintings reminding you that death is integral part of everyday life.

At the entrance of this chapel is a fresco commemorating the dead from the plague outbreak of 1630.

It's believed that the dead were once taken out of houses through these now walled-up doors.

Hidden masterpieces in a small church in the medieval city of Bergamo.

Beautifully decorated tarot cards from the Middle Ages.

Legend has it that the devil itself built this portal on a dare.

This sculpture of a rhinoceros suspended above a city square is meant to evoke the weight of the human condition.

Explore the evolution of photography and cinema through historical and contemporary equipment.

An abandoned piece of phallic art repurposed by locals into a makeshift fertility shrine.

German and American troops joined forces to defend this fortress during the strangest battle of World War II.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”