Places daveschaaf Wants to Go

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

A hidden museum focusing on the sexual aspects of anthropology.

A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.

A roadway designed for a visiting monarch.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

Unscathed for almost 2,000 years, the best preserved Roman triumphal arch is in a small southern Italian city.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

Unlike most arches, this geological oddity formed in a volcanic dike.

This striking arch, one of the first architectural elements constructed in Prospect Park, was recently restored to its original glory.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

A massive line that stretches across the floor of Bologna’s largest church was created by a 17th-century scientist to measure the movements of the Sun.

This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

See every month of the year personified at this opulent Turinese fountain.

This Art Nouveau mansion was used as the "House of the Screaming Child" in Dario Argento’s giallo classic.

This building was designed to celebrate Italy's victory in World War I.

This fountain is dedicated to the workers who perished constructing the Fréjus Rail Tunnel.

This Torino museum honors a soldier who kept the city safe using barrels of exploding gunpowder, losing his life in the process.

A landmark in the history of technology and computing is hidden in a tiny Baroque chapel.

This building has a giant piercing through one of its corners.

One of the oldest and most significant collections of Ancient Egyptian archeology outside of Egypt.

The intricate geometry inside this Baroque-style dome was designed to create "terror of the human soul."

This sinister Baroque entryway could lead you to a terrible fate.

The mysterious “eyes of the Devil” dot a street in the occult center of Italy.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.