Places dbone Wants to Go

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

This virtually windowless mass of smooth concrete is the only Catholic church in the city.

A forgotten and crumbling Yugoslav monument to the victims of fascism.

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.

During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

The Slovenian architect designed many landmarks in the capital city, including his own dream house.

This house's itty bitty size means no humans allowed.

A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.

This bronze statue was erected to honor a small Scottish town's beloved stray cat.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

The oldest arboretum on the Dalmatian coast doubles as the gardens of Kings Landing in "Game of Thrones."

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

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

This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.

Celebrated example of Ottoman architecture that also served as a site for brutal massacres.

A beautiful mountaintop mausoleum devoted to a Montenegrin icon can't seem to make everyone happy.

Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.

The tallest sea cliffs on the Southern Hemisphere are a climber's worst nightmare.

Rainforest filled with record-holding eucalyptus.