Places Jason C Wants to Go

Everything from alchemy books to building plans for the Eiffel Tower are housed inside this museum.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

One of Antoni Gaudí's least-visited works, an homage to Catalan patrimony that mixes neo-Gothic with Modernista forms.

The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

CERN's beautiful, bending sculpture is a tribute to the spread of knowledge.

This statue of a Hindu cosmic dancer at CERN is a metaphor for modern physics.

This ossuary is more than five centuries old and is heralded as one of the finest in Switzerland.

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

One of a series of no-purpose kinetic artworks by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.

In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.

Also known as the Square Colosseum, this building is a prime example of fascist-era rationalist architecture.

A wunderkammer of curious objects and intriguing art nestled within a hub of ancient Roman sites.

A massive marble foot is tucked away in a small alley near the Pantheon.

A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.

This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome.