Places danieldixon Wants to Go

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.

To the famous surrealist artist, liberty required two torches held high.

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

One of the oldest libraries in the world is still operating and contains the oldest existing document in the Italian language.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A space dedicated to contemporary art and culture, co-chaired by fashion icon Miuccia Prada.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Invented in the mid-19th century, this machine could send copied images via telegraph lines.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

Although called a funicular by both its owner and the locals this historic railroad is actually a rack and pinion system.

This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."