Florence, Italy
La Specola Anatomical Collection
The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Florence, Italy
The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.
Rome, Italy
This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.
Anacapri, Italy
The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.
Naples, Italy
A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.
Ercolano, Italy
Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.
Palermo, Italy
Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.
Vaglia, Italy
Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.
Rome, Italy
The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.
Milan, Italy
An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.
Venice, Italy
As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.
Florence, Italy
A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.
Rome, Italy
The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.
Florence, Italy
The middle finger of modernity.
Venice, Italy
This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.
Bomarzo, Italy
A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.
Kawasaki, Japan
A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.
Tokyo, Japan
The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.
Tokyo, Japan
Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.
Tokyo, Japan
Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.
Tokyo, Japan
Steampunk, humanoid sculptures crawl on all fours in a Tokyo plaza.
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.
Tokyo, Japan
This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.
Tokyo, Japan
Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.
Myanmar
This unique temple complex remains off the typical tourist trail.