Places Hitodama Wants to Go

The little church's beautifully frescoed ceiling has earned it the nickname “the Sistine Chapel of Madrid.”

This subway station is named after a local legend about supernatural dancing cats.

Stocking up on the world's best beer requires a pilgrimage to a monastery drive-through.

This uniquely designed bridge served as the city gate for Comacchio.

An Italian geologic wonder that served as the inspiration for the landscape of Dante's hell.

This 22-floor tower's Skydeck offers panoramic views of Amsterdam.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

This trail was once used to smuggle cigarettes, sugar, and other black market goods between Italy and Switzerland.

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

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

On the shores of Lake Garda, the ruins of a Roman villa that allegedly belonged to the poet Catullus.

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

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.