Places AFizzle Wants to Go

The bell that once tolled atop a lost Edinburgh gate now hangs for all to see.

This charming old building's loose connection with the Scottish Reformer is what saved it from demolition after it split apart.

Brass bricks outline the locations of Edinburgh's lost, lively market stalls.

This monument is dedicated to a young boy who survived a disaster that forced Edinburgh to reevaluate its building codes.

Sprawled across the Great Hall ceiling are various constellations and images relating to the zodiac.

This stately bank building hides a spectacular star-studded ceiling.

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.

A stone-filled garden in the heart of Edinburgh commemorates the father of modern geology.

The colorful stairs are made with marble from the world's major quarries.

This mundane post marks the old location of the city's main postal hub.

The middle finger of modernity.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

An oasis of beauty, tranquility and botanical research in the middle of Rome.

The Pope’s secret escape route.

Romans decided this 16th-century "talking statue" was so ugly, they named it after a primate.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

A statue representing a lost Roman profession that was vandalized for centuries.

A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.