Places A.M. Brune Wants to Go

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This stone marker honors the man who released Canada goose goslings in Fort Collins, Colorado.

A 12th-century Italian skirmish gets reenacted with 500,000 pounds of flying citrus.

Long hidden under grime, the politically radical murals of a little known Yugoslavian master are finally getting their due.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

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

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

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

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.