Places diegotonini Wants to Go

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

Hidden within this iconic mountain are a set of World War II bunkers once used by German forces.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

This overgrown mountain village has been abandoned for nearly a century.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

The world's largest bamboo labyrinth is a living demonstration of the plant’s immense potential.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

A public display of random paleontology.

This inverted metropolis model is the artist's "revenge" for not being allowed to have a doll house as a kid.

Denmark’s never-ending bridge.

When this Iron Age bog body was discovered in 1835, it was thought that she had died recently.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

The single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world.

An Italian vineyard invites religious pilgrims to stop by 24/7 to get their drink on, for free.