Places elainemellis Wants to Go

Beer lover's can-covered house.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

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

The former home of an Italian artist is now a shrine to his ambitious works.

This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

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

An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.

An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

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

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.