Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

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

The forbidden island of the Tuscan Archipelago may still contain buried treasure.

Take a giant yellow bird cage to the top of Elba's highest mountain.

An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.

Florence’s archaeological museum displays an ordinary stool that once shattered one of its most prized artifacts.

This garden among the Florentine hills is complete with a meditation path and works of poetry.

An 11th-century mountaintop fortress that played a crucial role in Italy's papal wars is now a vacation rental.

This historic line is a remnant of an ambitious and unconventional project that today provides panoramic views of the Ligurian mountains.

Miniatures built in the 1980s tell the city’s favorite legends and ghost stories.

Prank chair from an 18th-century Danish royal court shows the eternal popularity of fart jokes.

As Ernest Hemingway scribbled notes for stories, he left a lasting impression on this bar: a charred hole where he extinguished his cigars.

A striking circle of basalt columns perched on Ibiza’s rugged western coast, aligning art, astronomy, and myth in a landscape where time seems to stand still.

Covering 13 acres and hosting 3,000 shops, this is one of Africa's biggest urban markets.

This ornate neo-Gothic mausoleum honors the man behind the Mercedes name—and the daughter who inspired it.

Cut into the rock face of a hill, this ancient cave temple is believed to be one of the oldest structures in Pune.

This oak has seen Vikings, the Black Death, and world wars pass but refuses to give up.

Beneath its placid surface, one of New York City's primary sources of drinking water hides a haunted past.

In 1907, writer Nikolaus Welter invented a fictitious Voodoo tradition around this statue of a reclining Christ — which has since become a reality.

This 250-to 375-year-old live oak tree towers over the back garden of a local history museum.

This storied Buddhist temple is a rare example of a stupa within a stupa.

A bronze fountain celebrating a strange, seductive, long-breasted, motherly creature from regional folklore.

This large Roman bath complex offers a window into ancient life in the arid Central Anatolian steppe.

A gem of Catalan modernism amidst the vineyards.