Places elodieem Wants to Go

Saint Borromeo often prayed in this austere crypt during the 16th century.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

In the 1940s, Italian architect Mario Cavallè built a dozen of these round homes in northern Milan.

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

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

Underground tunnels once home to crime are now back open to the public.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

This log house sits in the remote Canadian wilderness, and holds a mysterious tale of the trapper who built it.

Carved wooden graves mark the plots at this cemetery in an old mining town.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

A refugee returns to his homeland to open Ho Chi Minh City’s first Michelin-starred restaurant.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

This enormous gold Buddha statue was hidden inside a stucco decoy for centuries.

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

A church made of steel.

Once a crime hotspot, this refurbished underpass is now home to a bookstore and a mural celebrating the history of Manila.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

An island on the Venetian Lagoon hosts this stone chair that has nothing to do with the King of the Huns.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

Venice's island of the dead.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.