Places Closed247 Wants to Go

This feat of German engineering is one of the only elevators in the world following a curved path.

Once used to calculate the various levels around the country.

This magnificent market stands as a poignant symbol of the suffering caused by the Spanish Civil War.

This 47-story "M" needed 20 years to be completed

An underground passage originally constructed as an air-raid shelter during the Spanish Civil War.

This portrait of Philip V is always hung upside down, in a protest three centuries in the making.

Once a spa resort, then a tuberculosis sanatorium, and now a crumbling ruin.

These 7,000-year-old cave paintings depict life in Neolithic Spain.

This air raid shelter from the Spanish Civil War is now a museum dedicated to the history of the city's bombardment.

If you like Art Deco you will love this bridge.

A dictator's failed public works project has been reborn as two linked trails through spectacular scenery.

A replica of the ice houses that once formed the basis of a local ice cream industry sits proudly in the middle of traffic.

A tree that defies gravity grows in an ancient ruin.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

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

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

This hydrochronometer was invented by a Dominican monk and is a prime feature in this garden.

A narrow opening between the mountains of the Amalfi Coast creates a scenic hidden beach.

Amalfi's pre-industrial history is slowly being engulfed by the lush vegetation of the Ferriere Valley.