Places atraveller Wants to Go

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

The home of a neoclassical master is now a shrine to his chosen art style.

This artistic temple brings together multiple architecture styles, but is only an example of one.

A visionary Italian architect created an impressive cluster of concrete structures for a family's private tomb.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

The skull of this patron saint is kept in a shrine located in his hometown.

Explore the quarry where the marble was sourced for Michaelangelo's David.

An Italian geologic wonder that served as the inspiration for the landscape of Dante's hell.

Italy's curious field of mud volcanoes is named for being both gross AND salty.

Where cemeteries are carved into the side of cliffs and infants are buried in the hollows of trees.

The unique funeral practices of the Toraja can be seen here with graves carved into caves and hung off cliffs.

Three wildly colorful calderas top this otherworldly volcano chain.

Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

A bronze monument to his majesty, King Gino.

This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.

This monument is a stark reminder of the horrors of the Zanzibar slave trade.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

The crumbling remains of a 19th-century textile factory.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.