Places jordank Wants to Go

A popular legend claims that the famous pizza was invented at a restaurant in this alley.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

This 17th-century passageway is home to numerous bookshops, a witch legend, and the oldest pizzeria in the world.

Though they look like Hobbit houses, these semi-underground stone structures were built for winemaking.

Sip a Negroni Sbagliato in the bar that invented it.

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

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

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

The Pope’s secret escape route.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.

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

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

The grave of the famous painter is marked by a simple stone in the ground.

This towering church is home to a world-famous organ and a treasure trove of medieval art.

The heart of Dutch football history.

At this barrel organ museum, history and live concert keep Dutch street organ culture alive.

Oldest Museum of the Netherlands is a true cabinet of curiosities.

The Bloemen Route, or “Flower Route”, stretches 25 miles through prime Dutch tulip country as a result of “tulip mania,” the world’s first economic bubble.