Places jimmyjazz Wants to Go

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

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

This lavish 20th-century casino adorns labels for San Pellegrino water.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

Soak in the soul of Kansas City at the oldest continually-operating jazz club in the country.

At an estimated 3,800 years old, this olive tree is one of the oldest on earth.

A cheeky alleyway window hosts tiny rotating exhibits with outsized charm.

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

This museum showcases the art of ancient sword-making.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

Leonardo da Vinci was one of many to find inspiration in this unique, rocky landscape in Tuscany.

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

The charred, dead skeleton of an oak tree is said to have consoled a dying 16th-century Italian poet.