Places Rachaelannmare Wants to Go

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

A massive mausoleum towers over the gravestones in a 19th-century Italian "model village."

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

Typewriter museum housing more than 1,500 machines preserves the history of the grandfather of computers.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

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

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

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

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

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