Places Bumba Wants to Go

An eerie ghost village hidden in the forests of the Eifel, frozen in a strange postwar limbo.

A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.

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

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

This small, ancient Roman temple was once a church dedicated to the patron saint of penitents.

This ancient trail climbs the mountain where a Latin League cult worshipped Jupiter, its main deity.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building 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.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

The cemetery houses the remains of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, one of Japan's most famous novelists.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

This only museum in the world dedicated solely to mushrooms.

This ordinary set of steps is a must-see destination for fans of a certain romantic anime.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

A train ride to the middle of nowhere gives its passengers some of the most iconic views of Japan's seasons.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.