Places etiennebara Wants to Go

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The middle finger of modernity.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

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

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

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

A copy of the Statue of Liberty greets visitors to the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi.

The birthplace of the builder of the Statue of Liberty is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This collection of French root art looks like an indoor fairy wonderland.

The remains of this castle, known as the Witch’s Eye, watch over the Thur Valley.

This UFO crash-landed on the outskirts of a French town in 2009.

For over 300 years this little carving has been the city’s good luck charm.

View one man's eccentric collection of nearly 5,000 corkscrews, then sip some Chablis.

The “Coin Cabinet of Dresden” houses a collection of over 300,000 numismatic artifacts, one of the largest of its kind in Europe.

This natural history museum houses one of the world's largest rat kings, a terrifying jumble of tangled rodents.

Now overgrown, these anti-tank barriers from World War II are sometimes called "dragon's teeth."

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.