Places Cali Buckley Wants to Go

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

Tiny museum with unusual specimens.

Despite their macabre past, these hooks are said to bring good luck to those who touch them.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

A Hungarian optometrist's charming collection of Asian art and curiosities.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

A well-worshipped shrine to the Virgin Mary nestled inside the last of Zagreb’s historic gates.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

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

A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.

Time stands still at this serene burial ground in the center of Budapest.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

A Serbian church lit by chandeliers made of weapons.