Places freddoloso Wants to Go

You can still see the remains of a sacred 3,000-year-old cypress.

After falling into disuse, this imposing department store found new life as a Hollywood backdrop and a theater.

A trove of ridiculously valuable prints and manuscripts under one roof.

Where Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' and John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre' were born.

An exceptional engineering feat that facilitates the migration of salmon upstream during their breeding season.

This statue of one of the engineers who created the London Underground hides a ventilation shaft for the tube lines that run under the street.

Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.

Opened in 1787, this old-world treasure is said to be the oldest restaurant in Copenhagen.

A family-owned store specializing in minerals, geodes, gemstones, and more.

The oldest civic library in Italy can trace its foundation back to 1619.

Home to a garden of poisonous plants and the only legal cannabis and opium farms in Tokyo.

Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.

This sculpture of a pylon is upside down and askew, as if its main purpose is to confuse passersby.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

Does this church in Naples hold the true tomb of Vlad the Impaler, the notoriously cruel figure who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula?

The rusting hulk of a Soviet warship sits on a Polish beach.

The road plays 30 seconds of the Marine’s Hymn when driving over the grooved pavement.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

An Anglo-Saxon cross inscribed with possibly the oldest written work of English literature.

A precursor to Taro Okamoto’s iconic Tower of the Sun.

Luminaries from Albert Einstein to John Lennon once had a cup of coffee at Tokyo's oldest café.

This small, easily-overlooked sculpture recalls the first time Graz saw a live elephant.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.