Places greetdruyts Wants to Go

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.

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

A brutalist gem towering over the heart of Milan.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

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

"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

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

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

The enigmatic sculpture hides above an escalator in a Milan metro station.

Vast network of air raid tunnels beneath Lombardy's capital.

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

See what remains of a once grand ancient Roman circus.

This poignant art installation raises awareness of violence against women.

The odd depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is rooted in the Catholic Church's eradication of Catharism.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

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

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

This small Milan street is filled with colorful homes and a rich history.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

In the city forest of Augsburg are oval, artificial ponds formed from a World War II bombing campaign.

Hidden in the forest are the crumbling, graffiti-covered remains of the factory where most of Germany's explosives were produced during World War II.

Deep in the forest next to Augsburg are abandoned bunkers and bullet traps from the region's military past.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.