Places fhoward Wants to Go

The people of Padua pledged to construct this church if the city was spared from destruction during World War I.

Built to repay the sins of the father, this church is home to one of the most valuable works of Western art.

The city of Parma's cathedral is home to one of the greatest illusionistic frescoes of the Renaissance.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

Two ancient yew trees with a chapel and an altar built inside their hollow trunks.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

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

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.