Places lefrea Wants to Go

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

The highest waterfall in Italy is only "turned on" five times a year.

A memorial to a dog that inspired rioting in the streets of London.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

Largest necropolis in the Mediterranean.

Windblown rock formations in an ancient Roman quarry.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.

Mysterious tombstones thought to be remnants of Atlantis.

A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.

A 12th-century Italian skirmish gets reenacted with 500,000 pounds of flying citrus.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

A medieval fresco which reminds visitors that death will come for us all.

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.