Places helenmendes Wants to Go

This 17th-century passageway is home to numerous bookshops, a witch legend, and the oldest pizzeria in the world.

The remains of the left arm of the levitating philosopher-saint are kept in a 13th-century Neapolitan basilica.

Locals pay their respects at a shrine to soccer player Diego Maradona—which claims to contain a real lock of his hair.

This whimsical fountain depicts a winged siren shooting water out of her nipples into the fires of Mount Vesuvius.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

This monumental fountain has moved around the city multiple times.

A popular legend claims that the famous pizza was invented at a restaurant in this alley.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

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

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

The middle finger of modernity.

The jaw of one of humankind's earliest ancestors on display at an overlooked geology museum.

This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.